VOLUME 11, 2003

EDITOR'S NOTE
Patricia D'Antonio

EDITORIAL
Patricia D'Antonio

ARTICLES

"A Real Tone": Professionalizing Nursing in Nineteenth Century London
CAROL HELMSTADTER

Midwifery and the Construction of an Image in Nineteenth Century Brazil
MARIA LUCIA MOTT

Science and Ritual: The Hospital as Medical and Sacred Space, 1865-1920
BARBRA MANN WALL

Nuns and GUNS: Holy Wars at Georgetown, 1903-1947
ALMA WOOLLEY

"Trained Brains are Better than Trained Muscles": Scientific Management and Canadian Nurses, 1910-1939
CYNTHIA TOMAN

From Weakling to Fighter: Changing the Image of Premature Infants
ELIZABETH A. REEDY

The Nadir of Nursing: Nurse-Perpetrators of the Ravensbrück Concentration Camp
SUSAN BENEDICT

Mennonite Nurses in World War II: Maintaining the Thread of Pacifism in Nursing
ANN GRABER HERSHBERGER

Sparks to Wildfires: The Emergence and Impact of Nurse Practitioner Education at Virginia Commonwealth University, 1974-1991
RITA JABLONSKI

REVIEW ESSAY
Reality and Representation in Reproductive Technologies
MARGARETE SANDELOWSKI

Bodies of Technology: Women's Involvement With Reproductive Medicine edited by Ann Rudinow Saetnan, Nelly Oudshoorn & Marta Kirejczyk

Cyborg Babies: From Techno-Sex to Techno-Tots edited by Robbie Davis-Floyd & Joseph Dumit

Playing Dolly: Technological Formations, Fantasies, and Fictions of Assisted Reproduction edited by E. Ann Caplan & Susan

BOOK REVIEWS
Making the Body Beautiful: A Cultural History of Aesthetic Surgery by Sander L. Gilman
Reviewer: Brigid Lusk

The People's Doctors: Samuel Thomson and the American Botanical Movement, 1790-1860 by John s. Haller, Jr.
Reviewer: Karol K. Weaver

Spreading Germs: Disease Theories and Medical Practices in Britain, 1865-1900 by Michael Worboys Reviewer: Helen Sweet


The Rise of Caring Power: Elizabeth Fry and Josephine Butler in Britain and the Netherlands by Annemieke van Drenth & Francisca de Haan
Reviewer: Geertje Boschma

Out of the Dead House: Nineteenth-Century Women Physicians and the Writing of Medicine by Susan Wells
Reviewer: Mary Tarbox

Say Little, Do Much: Nurses, Nuns, and Hospitals in the Nineteenth Century by Sioban Nelson
Reviewer: Linda E. Sabin

A Social History of Wet Nursing in America: From Breast to Bottle by Janet Golden
Reviewer: Barbara Brodie

No Place Like Home: A History of Nursing and Home Care in the United States by Karen Buhler-Wilkerson
Reviewer: Diane Hamilton

Bodies and Souls: Politics and the Professionalization of Nursing in France 1880-1922 by Katrin Schultheiss
Reviewer: Sioban Nelson

It Took Courage, Compassion, and Curiosity: Recollections and Writings of Leaders in Cancer Nursing: 1890-1970 by Judith Bond Johnson, Susan B. Baird, and Laura J. Hilderley
Reviewer: Shirley M. Gullo

Mr. Jefferson's Nurses: University of Virginia School of Nursing, 1901-2001 by Barbara M. Brodie
Reviewer: Marilyn E. Flood

As We See Ourselves: Jewish Women in Nursing by Evelyn Rose Benson
Reviewer: Barbara Brush

Sisters in Sorrow: Voices of Care in the Holocaust by Roger A. Ritvo and Diane M. Plotkin
Reviewer: Ellen Ben-Sefer

Cadet Nurse Stories: The Call for and Responses of Women During World War II by Thelma M. Robinson and Pauline M. Perry
Reviewer: Signe S. Cooper

Breaking the Glass Ceiling - The Stories of Three Caribbean Nurses by Jocelyn Hezekiah
Reviewer: Eleanor K. Herrmann

NEW DISSERTATIONS