New Colloquium Series On Nursing, Medical and Health Care History

Professionalizing Nursing and Medicine

 

We are pleased to announce a colloquium series entitled Enduring Issues in American Health Care: New Dialogues for the Present Using the Past. This series will explore, contextualize, and illuminate the histories of medicine and nursing and the ways in which both professions evolved within a framework of interaction, separation and collaboration between the years 1800 to 2000.

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Echoes and Evidence: An Introduction

Echoes and Evidence

By Jean C. Whelan, PhD, RN and Julie A. Sochalski, PhD, RN, FAAN

Welcome to Echoes and Evidence, a new blog from the Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing that brings hidden treasures from nursing and health care’s rich history and their policy implications to the public arena. Echoes and Evidence delves into the instrumental place that nurses and the nursing profession hold within the wide scope of health care history and health policy.

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