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History of Nursing Information Sources
Books
The Advance of American Nursing, by Philip A. Kalisch and Beatrice J. Kalisch. Boston: Little, Brown, 1986.
American Nursing: A Biographical Dictionary. Edited by Vern L. Bullough, Olga M. Church, and Alice P. Stein. New York: Garland, 1988.
Black Women in White: Racial Conflict and Cooperation in the Nursing Profession, 1890-1950, by Darlene Clark Hine. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1989. [electronic resource]
Contemporary American Leaders in Nursing: An Oral History, by Gwendolyn Safier. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1977.
Cornerstone for Nursing Education: A History of the Division of Nursing Education of Teachers College, Columbia University, 1899-1947, by Teresa E. Christy. New York: Teachers College Press, Columbia University, 1969.
Dictionary of American Nursing Biography, Edited by Martin Kaufman, and others. New York: Greenwood Press, 1988.
Enduring Issues in American Nursing, edited by Ellen D. Baer and others. New York: Springer Pub. Co., 2002.
The First 25 Years of the Southern Council on Collegiate Education for Nursing (SCCEN), by Barbara B. Reitt. Atlanta, GA: SCCEN, 1987. [Southern Council on Collegiate Education for Nursing]
First Words: Selected Addresses from the National League for Nursing, 1894-1933, edited by Nettie Birnbach and Sandra Lewenson. New York: National League for Nursing Press, 1991.
Florence Nightingale and Her Era: A Collection of New Scholarship, edited by Vern Bullough, Bonnie Bullough, and Marietta P. Stanton. New York: Garland, 1990.
Florence Nightingale: Mystic, Visionary, Healer, by Barbara Montgomery Dossey. Springhouse, PA: Springhouse Corp., 2000.
Geriatric Nursing: Growth of a Specialty, by Priscilla Ebersole and Theris A. Touhy. New York: Springer Pub. Co., 2006.
Highlights in the History of the Army Nurse Corps, edited by Carolyn M. Feller and Constance J. Moore. Washington, D. C.: U. S. Army Center of Military History, 1996.
Historical Encyclopedia of Nursing, by Mary Ellen Snodgrass. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1999.
A History of Nursing, From Ancient to Modern Times; A World View. New York, Putnam, 1962.
A History of Nursing Ideas, edited by Linda C. Andrist, Patrice K. Nicholas, and Karen A. Wolf. Sudbury, Mass.: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 2006.
Hospitals, Paternalism, and the Role of the Nurse, by Jo Ann Ashley. New York: Teachers College Press, 1976.
Images of Nurses: Perspectives from History, Art, and Literature. Edited by Anne Hudson Johes. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988.
Mary Adelaide Nutting, Pioneer of Modern Nursing, by Helen E. Marshall. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1972.
No Time for Prejudice: A Story of the Integration of Negroes in Nursing in the United States. New York: Macmillan, 1961.
Nurses in Nazi Germany: Moral Choice in History, by Bronwyn Rebekay McFarland-Icke. Princteon, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999.
Nursing, a Historical Bibliography, by Bonnie Bullough, Vern L. Bullough, and Barrett Elcano. New York: Garland Pub., 1981.
Nursing: A World View, by Huda Abu-Saad. St. Louis: C. V. Mosby, 1979.
Nursing History: The State of the Art, edited by Christopher Maggs. London; Wolfeboro, NH: Croom Helm, 1987.
Nursing in Society: A Historical Perspective, by Josephine A. Dolan. Philadelphia: Saunders, 1978.
Nursing, the Finest Art: An Illustrated History, by M. Patricia Donahue; illustrations edited and compiled by Patricia A. Russac. St. Louis: C. V. Mosby, 1985.
One Strong Voice: The Story of the American Nurses’ Association, compiled by Lyndia Flanagan. Kansas City, MO: American Nurses’ Association, 1976.
Ordered to Care: The Dilemma of American Nursing, 1850-1945, by Susan M. Reverby. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
The Path We Tread: Blacks in Nursing, 1854-1984, by Mary Elizabeth Carnegie; foreword by Josephine A. Dolan. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1986.
“The Physician’s Hand”: Work Culture and Conflict in American Nursing, by Barbara Melosh. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1982.
Pivotal Moments in Nursing: Leaders Who Changed the Path of a Profession, by Beth Houser and Kathy Player. Indianapolis, IN: Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing, 2004.
The Poetry of Nursing: Poems and Commentaries of Leading Nurse-Poets, edited by Judy Schaefer. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2006.
Reflecting on 30 Years of Nursing Leadership: 1975-2005, by Sister Rosemary Donley. Indianapolis, IN: Sigma Theta Tau International, 2005.
Rewriting Nursing History, edited by Celia Davies. London: Croom Helm; Totowa, NJ: Barnes & Noble, 1980.
To Bind Up the Wounds: Catholic Sister Nurses in the U.S. Civil War, by Mary Denis Maher. New York: Greenwood Press, 1989.
Understanding the Work of Nurse Theorists: A Creative Beginning, by Kathleen Sitzman and Lisa Wright Eichelberger. Sudbury, Mass: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 2004.
Wide Neighborhoods: A Story of the Frontier Nursing Service, by Mary Breckinridge. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1981.
Women at the Front: Hospital Workers in Civil War America, by Jane E. Schults. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
Women at War: The Story of Fifty Military Nurses Who Served in Vietnam, by Elixabeth M. Norman. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991.
Women, Health and Medicine in America: A Historical Handbook, edited by Rima D. Apple. New York: Garland Pub., 1990.
Web Sites
American Association for the History of Nursing, Inc.
Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing, School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania
The History of Nursing Archives, Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University
University of Maryland School of Nursing Living History Museum http://nursing.umaryland.edu/offices/development/museum/index.htm
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