About the Book
Named an Outstanding Academic Title for 2001 by Choice! Why turn to the past when attempting to build nursing's future?...To make good decisions in planning nursing's future in the context of our complex health care system, nurses must know the history of the actions being considered, the identities and points of view of the major players, and all the stakes that are at risk. These are the lessons of history."
-- from the Introduction
This book presents nursing history in the context of problems and issues that persist to this day. Issues such as professional autonomy, working conditions, relationships with other health professionals, appropriate knowledge for education and licensure, gender, class, and race are traced through the stories told in this volume. Each chapter provides a piece of the puzzle that is nursing. The editors, all noted nurse historians and educators, have carefully made selections from the best that has been published in the nursing and health care literature.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Section I: Contemporary Issues in Historical Context
Introduction, Ellen D. Baer
Nursing's History: Looking Backward and Seeing Forward, Joan Lynaugh
The Intersection of Race, Class, and Gender in the Nursing Profession, Darlene Clark Hines
Section 2: Identity: The Meaning of Nursing
Introduction, Joan E. Lynaugh
Isabel Hampton and the Professionalization of Nursing in the 1890s, Janet James
Discipline, Obedience, and Female Support Groups: Mona Wilson at the Johns Hopkins Hospital School of Nursing, 1915-1918, Douglas Baldwin
To Cultivate a Feeling of Confidence: The Nursing of Obstetric Patients, 1890-1940, Sylvia Rinker
Midwives as Wives and Mothers: Urban Midwives in the Early Twentieth Century, Linda Walsh
Section 3: The Nature of Power and Authority in Nursing
Introduction, Patricia O. D'Antonio
Aspirations Unattained: The Story of the Illinois Training School's Search for University Status, Ellen D. Baer
Guarded by Standards and Directed by Strangers: Charleston, South Carolina's Response to a National Health Care Agenda, 1920-1930, Karen Buhler-Wilkerson
Strange Young Women on Errands: Obstetric Nursing between Two Worlds, Judith Walzer Leavitt
The Physician's Eyes: American Nursing and the Diagnostic Revolution in Medicine, Margarete Sandelowski
Section 4: The Nature of Nursing Knowledge
Introduction, Joan E. Lynaugh
Constructing the Mind of Nursing, Diane Hamilton
A Legitimate Relationship: Nursing, Hospitals, and Science in the Twentieth Century, Susan Reverby
Lavinia Lloyd Dock: The Henry Street Years, Carole A. Estabrooks
Delegated by Default or Negotiated by Need? Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, and the Process of Clinical Thinking, Julie Fairman
Section 5: Conclusion
Introduction, Sylvia Rinker
Revisiting and Rethinking the Rewriting of Nursing History, Patricia D'Antonio
Appendix: Suggestions for Further Reading
About the Author :
Ellen D. Baer, RN, PhD, FAAN, is the Wallace Gilroy Visiting Professor of Nursing at the University of Miami and Professor Emeritus of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania, where she held the Hillman Term Professorship in Nursing and where she remains an Associate Director of the Center for the Study of the History of Nursing.
Patricia D’Antonio, RN, PhD, is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania, a Fellow at the Center for the Study of the History of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania, and the Associate Editor of Nursing History Review.
Sylvia D. Rinker, RN, PhD, is Associate professor of Nursing at Lynchburg College in Lynchburg, Virginia. She is Chair of the Strategic Planning Committee of the American Association for the History of Nursing, archivist for the Xi Upsilon Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau at Lynchburg College, and on the Advisory Board for the Center for the History and Culture of Central Virginia.
Joan E. Lynaugh, RN, PhD, FAAN, is Professor Emeritus of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania where she held the History of Nursing and Health Care Term Professorship. Dr. Lynaugh was the Founder and Director, now Associate Director, of the Center for the Study of the History of Nursing and the Associate Dean and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. She currently chairs the Board of Trustees of the Visiting Nurse Association of Greater Philadelphia.
Review :
"Why turn to the past when attempting to build nursing's future?...To make good decisions in planning nursing's future in the context of our complex health care system, nurses must know the history of the actions being considered, the identities and points of view of the major players, and all the stakes that are at risk. These are the lessons of history." -- from the Introduction"
