EDITORIAL:
JOAN E. LYNAUGH
ARTICLES
"Strange Young Women on Errands": Obstetric Nursing Between Two Worlds
JUDITH WALZER LEAVITT
Political Women, Professional Nurses and the Creation of Alberta's District Nursing Service, 1919-1925
SHARON RICHARDSON
"For Zion's Sake" : The Emergence of Mormon Nursing
ELAINE SHAW SORENSEN
An Experiment in Leadership: The Rise of Student Government at Philadelphia General Hospital Training School, 1920-1930
KAREN J. EGENES
"Called To a Mission of Service" : The Sisters of St. Joseph in the Civil War
BARBRA MANN WALL
"A Somewhat Duskier Skin" : Mary Seacole in the Crimea
D.P. GRIFFON
HISTORIOGRAPHIC ESSAY
Alternative Visions: The Nurse-Technology Relationship in the Context of the History of Technology
JULIE FAIRMAN
BOOK REVIEWS
The Empty Cradle: From Colonial Times to the Present by Margaret Marsh and Wanda Ronner
REVIEWER: SYLVIA RINKER
The Eclipse of the State Mental Hospital: Policy, Stigma, and Organization by George Dowdall
REVIEWER: JANET COLAIZZI
Healing Traditions: Alternative Methods and the Health Professions by Bonnie Blair O'Connor
REVIEWER: SANDRA LEWENSON
Still a Man's World: Men who Do Women's Work by Christine Williams
REVIEWER: KAREN EGENES
Making a Place for Ourselves: The Black Hospital Movement, 1925-1945 by Vanessa Northington Gamble
REVIEWER: BONNIE L. RICHARDSON
Health Care's Forgotten Majority: Nurses and their Frayed White Collars by J. Goodman-Draper
REVIEWER: BETH L. RODGER
Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired: Black Women's Health Activism in America, 1890-1950 by Susan L. Smith
REVIEWER: SARAH C. CARGILE
White Coolies: Australian Nurses Behind Enemy Lines by Betty Jeffrey
REVIEWER: ELIZABETH NORMAN
The Nightingale Model of Nursing by Rob van der Peet
REVIEWER: JOANN G. WIDERQUIST
Behind the Mask: Nurses, their Unions and Nursing Policy by Christopher Hart
REVIEWER: JUDITH M. STANLEY
The Eternally Wounded Woman: Women, Doctors and Exercise in the Late Nineteenth Century by Patricia A. Vertinsky
REVIEWER: SUSAN M. SACHARSKI
Order Out of Chaos: John Shaw Billings and America's Coming of Age by Carleton B. Chapman
REVIEWER: DIANE HAMILTON
The Sickroom in Victorian Fiction by Miriam Bailin
REVIEWER: MARGARET M. ALLEMANG
Abandoned to Their Fate: Social Policy and Practice Toward Severely Retarded People in America, 1820-1920 by Philip M. Ferguson
REVIEWER: MARY BOYD
Nursing: Its Principles and Practice: For Hospital and Private Use by Isabel Adams Hampton
REVIEWER: NATALIE N. RIEGLER
Bad Habits: Drinking, Smoking, Taking Drugs, Gambling, Sexual Misbehavior, and Swearing in American History by John C. Burnham
REVIEWER: SUSAN L. SMITH
In Memory of - Virginia Avenel Henderson, 1897-1996
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