Showing papers in "Nursing History Review in 1995"

Catching Babies: The Professionalization of Childbirth, 1870-1920

Abstract: Using the methodology of social science theory, particularly quantitative statistical analysis and historical demography, Borst (history, U. of Alabama) examines the effects of gender, culture, and class on the transition to physician-attended child birth. She focuses on four representative countie

The Medical Enlightenment of the Eighteenth Century

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Fits and Starts: A Genealogy of Hysteria in Modern France

Abstract: Wallinger, and although she chafed under the discipline, grueling hours of duty, and split shifts, she found that she had developed a love for nursing that would endure throughout her life. It is this love of nursing that WaUinger fears is disappearing in today's nurses. Onward Christian Soldie1-s faUs within the realm of light reading; it reads more like a Cherry Ames story than an insightful historical account of a neophyte's passage into the role of a professional nurse. Although Wallinger views the education of today's nurses as inadequate and focused more on classroom teaching than on the mastery of patient care, her own account of her training experiences would not convince anyone that patients would be better served if nursing education reverted to the apprenticeship model of yesteryear.

Patients, Power, and the Poor in Eighteenth-Century Bristol

Abstract: which unconscious male fantasies and fears play. They must remain unknowable both to themselves and to others because patriarchy demands it. What's needed, Evans concludes, is a construction of \"woman/puzzle\" to continue its pursuit of knowledge as mastery. Fits and Starts is neither easy nor completely satisfying reading. Evans assumes a knowledge of French history and culture that most American readers are unlikely to possess. In addition, her connections between science and politics, and between women's distress and the material conditions of their lives, are somewhat schematic and overdrawn. Finally, and perhaps most significantly as it touches on the conceptual heart of her argument, Evans presumes an acceptance of psychoanalytic theory as a valid tool for probing the personal and social dimensions of human experience. Readers who share her premise will find the \"hysterization\" of psychoanalysis-the neurotic and socially determined coupling between therapist/patient, man/woman, knower/unknownas a problem that will only be solved when women embrace, rather than repress, their aggressive impulses as the root of all drive.~ toward mastery. Those who do not will find a reason to dismantle tl1e entire edifice. Still, Fits and Starts is necessary reading. Historians interested in exploring women's lives will find that it brings the concept of\"discourse,\" so powerful in other areas of women's studies, to bear on the issue of their illnesses. Indeed, it is in its treatment of women's illnesses that this book should find its broadest audience.

Federalism and Health Policy: The Development of Health Systems in Canada and Australia

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The Concept of Schizophrenia: Historical Perspectives

Abstract: Presbyterian Hospital and the school, particularly regarding the tension that has characterized the relationship of one hundred years. The book also explores the relationship between the School ofNursing and the Medical School, which for many years impeded the autonomy and more progressive development of the School of Nursing as an academic entity. Reading Goldenberg's book, one can actually feel the pressures produced by the physical location of the School of Nursing between those two male-dominated giants. Similarly, the periodic combining, then separating of the positions of Director of the Hospital Nursing Service and Director of the School of Nursing compounded the ambiguity reflected in the development of the school's identity as a legitimate academic unit within Columbia University. In some respects, especially in the discussion of the .first half of the school's existence, the respective directors of the School of Nursing emerge as powerful influences whose personal styles ofleadership shaped the curricula and defined the relationship with the hospital and, later, with the university. Anna Maxwell, Helen Young, Margaret Conrad, and Eleanor Lee emerge as leaders whose actions greatly affected the progress of the School of Nursing. Treatment of the school's more contemporary history, while appropriately descriptive, still requires more passage of time for an evaluative determination of the effect of events and leaders on the recent progress of the school. The book provides a valuable springboard for considering the future of the Columbia University School of Nursing and for charting its further relationship with the hospital that generated it and the university whose name it bears.

History of Childbirth: Fertility, Pregnancy and Birth in Early Modern Europe

Abstract: home visiting. If scholars could docwnent the Bristol profusion of medical practitioners and healers in other areas of d1e country, new questions would be raised regarding the underpinnings of English nursing during the preNightingale era. In any case, this text is an important source for understanding the complex context ofEnglish charity and medical care during the century that preceded the emergence of organized nursing. Patients, Power, and the Poor reveals complex eighteenth-century Bristol in an accessible and understandable manner, and it is rich with details that suggest further questions about the relationships among patients, medical practitioners, social institutions, and charity. Fissell's use of a great diversity of primary sources to capture eighteenth-century patient perspectives on hospital and illness meaning and her attention to patients' illness narratives are particularly commendable contributions. Also notable is the depth and breadth of the text's bibliography.

The Journey of Life: A Cultural History of Aging in America

Abstract: Throughout this book are pearls of interest to the biographer, regarding not only Hassenplug but also many other nursing leaders, such as Helen Nahn, Hildegard Peplau, Esther Garrison, and Mary Dineen, who participated in this oral history project. Because of the nature of the project, the reader will be left with more questions than answers. Perhaps, however, the book may entice a nurse historian to take up the challenge and undertake a complete biography of Lulu K. Wolf Hassenplug.

From TB to AIDS: Epidemics Among Urban Blacks Since 1900

Abstract: Gray, a political scientist at the Australian National University, uses chronological political history as the social context for her comparative analysis of Australia and Canada. This method of analysis is typical of the policy sciences but cannot be considered historiography. The 220-page book is divided into eight chapters: the first chapter concerns federalism and the study of public policy; the second chapter traces the development of national health insurance in Canada, I900-I97o; the third chapter examines health services in Australia; the fourth chapter focuses on voluntary health insurance in Australia, 19501972; the fifth chapter concerns Canadian health politics under national health insurance, 1970-1986; the sixth chapter considers compulsory health insurance in Australia, 1972-1986; the seventh chapter discusses health services in Canada and Australia, 1970-1986; and the final chapter explores federalism and the determinants of health policy. Chapter notes and an extensive bibliography (30 pages) follow the text. Gray's book is a well-documented study of essentially contemporary health policy development in two countries whose systems are not like our own. In Canada, the approach has been to guarantee financial access through national health insurance, while in AuStralia there has historically been more direct public provision of services. Health care reform in America has renewed our interest in examining other health systems for any lessons we may learn in transforming our own. Students of comparative health policy should find this book informative reading.

Health in Rural North America: The Geography of Health Care Services and Delivery

Abstract: Administration, which call for placebo trials. Only after considerable social pressure did officials use the cancer model, a model that is based on the assumption that when death seems to be the only alternative, the first loyalty is to the patient, even if the effectiveness of the proposed treatment is uncenain. In sum, Fee and Fox and their contributors emphasize how many of the decisions concerning the study of AIDS were based on inadequate data, false starts, and erroneous assumptions. It is only by examining these decisions with the skeptical and questioning eye of the historian, aware of the traps inherent in challenging current social constructions of phenomenon, that new kinds of questions can be asked and new answers sought. It is a process that must be continually repeated. Fee and Fox conclude by offering new justification for the application of history to societal problems, not so much for solutions, but for the new questions engendered by such application. This historical method can be applied not only to disease, such as AIDS, but even to the assumptions that underlie a profession, such as nursing. This book gives new importance to some of the tasks that we, as nurse historians, must accomplish.

Preventive Medicine in the United States, 1900–1990: Trends and Interpretations

Abstract: middle class, dearly religious, and caught up in the social changes occurring around them. Many of the women, Bonner notes, pursued social causes such as the abolition of\"slavery, intemperance and other evils of American life\" (p. 14-) and supported the women's rights activities spawned at the J849 meetings at Seneca Falls. As one thirty-year-old Cincinnati student wrote: \"I would like to be employed at something that will benefit the part of the human family that has been oppressed and suffered wrongfully, to wit women'' (p. 14). The book is thoroughly researched and wonderfully well written, with a flowing narrative that brings alive the people, places, and times of Bonner's story. The first study to provide an international context to women's medical education efforts, the book is clearly of important value to scholars in medical, nursing, women's, and social history. With its comfortable writing style, the book will also appeal to lay readers who enjoyed Paul Starr's Social Transformation of American M edicine and Laurel Ulrich's A Midwife's Tale. The absence of any discussion of nursing is surprising and disappointing, however, considering that women nurses faced many of the same prejudices as women physicians and that nursing was a common alternative for women denied the pursuit of medicine. This lack of reference to nursing constitutes the one serious omission in an otherwise excellent book.