Nursing History Review, Volume 11, 2003 : Official Publication of the American Association for the History of Nursing

Nursing History Review, an annual peer-reviewed publication of the American Association for the History of Nursing, is a showcase for the most significant current research on nursing history. Regular sections include scholarly articles, over a dozen book reviews of the best publications on nursing and health care history that have appeared in the past year, and a section abstracting new doctoral dissertations on nursing history. Historians, researchers, and individuals fascinated with the rich field of nursing will find this an important resource. CONTENTS......Page 3 EDITOR'S NOTE......Page 9 "A Real Tone": Professionalizing Nursing in Nineteenth-Century London......Page 11 Midwifery and the Construction of an Image in Nineteenth-Century Brazil......Page 39 Science and Ritual: The Hospital as Medical and Sacred Space, 1865–1920......Page 59 Nuns and GUNS: Holy Wars at Georgetown, 1903–1947......Page 77 "Trained Brains are Better Than Trained Muscles": Scientific Management and Canadian Nurses, 1910–1939......Page 97 From Weakling to Fighter: Changing the Image of Premature Infants......Page 117 The Nadir of Nursing: Nurse-Perpetrators of the Ravensbrück Concentration Camp......Page 137 Mennonite Nurses in World War II: Maintaining the Thread of Pacifism in Nursing......Page 155 Sparks to Wildfires: The Emergence and Impact of Nurse Practitioner Education at Virginia Commonwealth University, 1974–1991......Page 175 Playing Dolly: Technocultural Formations, Fantasies, and Fictions of Assisted Reproduction......Page 195 Making the Body Beautiful: A Cultural History of Aesthetic Surgery......Page 199 The People's Doctors: Samuel Thomson and the American Botanical Movement, 1790–1860......Page 200 Spreading Germs: Disease Theories and Medical Practice in Britain, 1865–1900......Page 202 The Rise of Caring Power: Elizabeth Fry and Josephine Butler in Britain and the Netherlands......Page 203 Out of the Dead House: Nineteenth-Century Women Physicians and the Writing of Medicine......Page 205 Say Little, Do Much: Nurses, Nuns, and Hospitals in the Nineteenth Century......Page 206 A Social History of Wet Nursing in America: From Breast to Bottle......Page 208 No Place Like Home: A History of Nursing and Home Care in the United States......Page 209 Bodies and Souls: Politics and Professionalization of Nursing in France 1880–1922......Page 211 It Took Courage, Compassion, and Curiosity: Recollections and Writings of Leaders in Cancer Nursing: 1890–1970......Page 212 Mr. Jefferson's Nurses: University of Virginia School of Nursing, 1901–2001......Page 214 As We See Ourselves: Jewish Women in Nursing......Page 216 Sisters in Sorrow: Voices of Care in the Holocaust......Page 217 Cadet Nurse Stories: The Call For and Responses of Women During World War II......Page 219 Breaking the Glass Ceiling—The Stories of Three Caribbean Nurses......Page 220 NEW DISSERTATIONS......Page 223