Nursing History Review, Volume 7, 1999 : 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 interested with the rich field of nursing will find this an important resource Contents......Page 2 EDITORIAL......Page 8 Rethinking the Tuskegee Syphilis Study: Nurse Rivers, Silence and the Meaning of Treatment......Page 10 Full Circle: The Nurse-Midwifery Careers of Elizabeth Berryhill and Gabriela Olivera......Page 36 Nurse-Midwives, the Mass Media, and the Politics of Maternal Health Care in the United States, 1925-1955......Page 54 Frances Elisabeth Crowell and the Politics of Nursing in Czechoslovakia after the First World War......Page 74 Vivian Bullwinkel: Sole Survivor of the 1942 Massacre of Australian Nurses......Page 104 Refuge and Rescue: Jewish Nurse Refugees and the International Council of Nurses, 1947-1965......Page 120 High Ideals Versus Harsh Reality: A Historical Analysis of Mental Health Nursing in Dutch Asylums, 1890-1920......Page 134 Asylum Nursing and Institutional Service: A Case Study of the South of England, 1861-1881......Page 160 Entering the Professional Domain: The Making of the Modern Nurse in 17th Century France......Page 178 Florence Nightingale: Letters from the Crimea, 1854-1856......Page 196 Doctors in Blue: The Medical History of the Union Army in the Civil War......Page 198 Vitamania: Vitamins in American Culture......Page 200 The Machine in the Nursery......Page 201 The History of Mental Symptoms: Descriptive Psychopathology Since the Nineteenth Century......Page 203 In the Shadow of Polio: A Personal and Social History......Page 205 Morality and Health......Page 206 Making Midwives Legal: Childbirth, Medicare and the Law......Page 208 A Social History of Wet Nursing in America: From Breast to Bottle......Page 210 Champions of Charity......Page 211 Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Public's Health......Page 213 Nurses' Questions, Women's Questions: The Impact of the Demographic Revolution and Feminism on United States Working Women, 1946-1986......Page 215 American Nursing from Hospitals to Health Systems......Page 216 Bedside Matters: The Transformation of Canadian Nursing, 1900-1990......Page 218 The Black Stork: Eugenics and the Death of "Defective" Babies in American Medicine and Motion Pictures Since 1915......Page 220 The Politics of Nursing Knowledge......Page 221 A Leap in the Dark: The Origins and Development of the Department of Nursing Studies, The University of Edinburgh......Page 223 Catching Babies: The Professionalization of Childbirth, 1870-1920......Page 224 Sickness and Healing: An Anthropological Perspective......Page 226 Technology in the Hospital: Transforming Patient Care in the Early Twentieth Century......Page 228 Ministry and Meaning: A Religious History of Catholic Health Care in the United States......Page 229 Learning to Heal: The Development of American Medical Education......Page 231 Subject Index......Page 233 Florence Nightingale, superintendent of nurses at Scutari, Turkey, during the Crimean War, and Mary Jones, superintendent of St. John's House, London, began a formal and rather cool exchange of letters over Nightingale's treatment of St. John's House nurses in Scutari.