Call for Abstracts: 2010 Annual Meeting, Winnipeg, June 18-20
November 16, 2009 by admin
Canadian Association for the History of Nursing / Association Canadienne pour l’histoire du Nursing
Call for Abstracts: 2010 Annual Meeting, Winnipeg, June 18-20
Continuities, Contingencies and Fault Lines: Nursing 100 Years After Nightingale
A century after her death, Florence Nightingale continues to cast a long shadow over the History of Nursing, especially in the English-speaking world, where the Nightingale narrative long served as a basis for assertions of a universal body of knowledge and a unitary sphere of practice that justified nursing’s professional claims. In the last quarter century, however, historians have increasingly turned their attention to illuminating the diversity of nursing practitioners, the contingency of nursing practice, and nursing’s location within social, national and imperial projects.
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