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Product Description: "Founding Friends" is a history of day-to-day life inside the Friends Asylum for the Insane in early nineteenth-century Philadelphia. It uses an extraordinarily rich data source: the daily diaries that the Asylum's lay superintendents kept between 1814 and 1850...read more

With contributions from some of the most renowned nursing scholars and historians, the real-life history of how nurses worked and how they endured the ever-changing economic, social, educational, and technological milieu is presented in a captivating collection of articles. Includes information on African American men, black nurses, blood transfusion, cardiac nurses, Jessie Sleet, Elizabeth Tyler, Edith Carter, deep South, Haley Fiske, Lee Frankel, Emily Hawley Gillespie, Great Depression, Alma Haupt, Virginia Henderson, Lawrence E. Meltzer, midwives, National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (NFIP), nursing care plans, nursing education, nursing shortage, patient centered care, polio, private duty nursing, public health nursing, training schools, LucyVan Frank, Lilliam Wald, yellow fever, etc.

Nursing History Review, an annual peer-reviewed publication, is a showcase for the most significant current research on nursing and the health care history. Contributors include national and international scholars. They also represent many different disciplinary backgrounds. Regular sections include scholarly articles, reviews of the best books on nursing and health care history, invited commentaries, and abstracts of new doctoral dissertations on nursing and health care history. Historians, researchers, and individuals fascinated with the rich field of nursing will find this an important resource.

Product Description: Named a 2011 Choice Outstanding Academic Title! Designated a Doody's Core Title! This is a must-read for nurses who are interested in where nursing has been and what nurses have done to get to the present day. " Score: 94, 4 stars --Doody's Nursing has a rich history that consistently informs contemporary practice and standards...read more