Nursing History Review, Volume 8, 2000 : 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 2 EDITORIAL......Page 8 The Physician's Eyes: American Nursing and the Diagnostic Revolution in Medicine......Page 10 Eleanor Clarke Slagel and Susan E. Tracy: Personal and Professional Identity and the Development of Occupational Therapy in Progressive Era America......Page 46 Nursing Reorganization in Occupied Japan, 1945-1951......Page 78 Medical Service to Settlers: The Gestation and Establishment of a Nursing Service in Québec, 1932-1943......Page 102 To Cultivate a Feeling of Confidence: The Nursing of Obstetric Patients, 1890-1940......Page 124 We Must Have Nurses: Spanish Influenza in America, 1918-1919......Page 150 The Miners' Hospitals of West Virginia: Nurses and Healthcare Come to the Coal Fields, 1900-1920......Page 164 A Hard Day's Work: Institutional Nursing in the Post-World War II Era......Page 176 American Medicine and the Public Interest: A History of Specialization......Page 192 Bedside Seductions: Nursing and the Victorian Imagination, 1830-1880......Page 193 Virginia Avenel Henderson: Signature for Nursing......Page 195 Critical Care Nursing: A History......Page 196 Alaska's Search for a Killer: A Seafaring Medical Adventure, 1946-1948......Page 198 Purity and Pollution: Gender, Embodiment, and Victorian Medicine......Page 199 Mothers And Motherhood: Readings in American History......Page 201 Nursing History and the Politics of Welfare......Page 202 Alternative Health Care in Canada: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Perspectives and Kindly Medicine: Physio-Medicalism in America......Page 204 Jean I. Gunn: Nursing Leader......Page 208 Keeping America Sane: Psychiatry and Eugenics in the United States and Canada, 1880-1940......Page 209 G.I. Nightingales: The Army Nurse Corps in World War II......Page 211 Hospital Days: Reminiscence of a Civil War Nurse......Page 212 One Blood. The Death and Resurrection of Charles R, Drew......Page 213 No Time for Fear......Page 216 Caring and Curing: Health and Medicine in the Western Religious Traditions......Page 218 Index......Page 220 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.