New Book: A cultural history of the nurse’s uniform
January 22, 2013 by jlapeyre
A cultural history of the nurse’s uniform
By Christina Bates
This first and only in-depth analysis of the attire worn by the largest workforce in the health care system explores the role of the nurse’s uniform in creating nursing identity for over a hundred years.
For ordering information and more information about the author:
Cultural history of a nurse’s uniform
Une histoire culturelle de l’uniforme infirmier
Canadian Award Winner at the American Association for the History of Nursing Conference
November 3, 2012 by jlapeyre
Canadian Award Winner at the American Association of the History of Nursing (AAHN):
Congratulations to Carol Helmstadter and Judith Godden for winning the 2012 Lavinia L. Dock Award from the American Association for the History of Nursing for their newly published book, Nursing before Nightingale 1850 -1899.
New Book: China Interrupted Japanese Internment and the Reshaping of a Canadian Missionary Community
October 10, 2012 by jlapeyre
China Interrupted: Japanese Internment and the Reshaping of a Canadian Missionary Community
Sonya Grypma
Book Description
China Interrupted is the story of the richly interwoven lives of Canadian missionaries and their China-born children (mishkids), whose lives and mission were irreversibly altered by their internment as “enemy aliens” of Japan from 1941 to 1945.
Over three hundred Canadians were among the 13,000 civilians interned by the Japanese in China. China Interrupted explores the experiences of a small community of Canadian missionaries who worked in Japanese-occupied China and were profoundly affected by Canada’s entry into the Pacific War. It critically examines the fading years of the missionary movement, beginning with the perspective of Betty Gale and other mishkid nurses whose childhood socialization in China, decision to return during wartime, choice to stay in occupied regions against consular advice, and response to four years of internment reflect the resilience, fragility, and eventual demise of the China missions as a whole.
China Interrupted provides insight into the many ways in which health care efforts in wartime China extended out of the tight-knit missionary community that had been established there decades earlier. Urging readers past a thesis of missions as a tool of imperialism, it offers a more nuanced way of thinking about the relationships among people, institutions, and nations during one of the most important intercultural experiments in Canada’s history.
About Sonya Grypma
Sonya Grypma is a leading scholar in the history of nursing and global health and an associate professor of nursing at Trinity Western University. She has gained an international reputation for her work on missionary nursing in China, particularly through her groundbreaking book Healing Henan: Canadian Nurses at the North China Mission, 1888–1947.
For more information and to order see: http://www.wlupress.wlu.ca/Catalog/grypma.shtml
New Book: A Portrait of Saskatchewan Nurses in Military Times
October 2, 2012 by jlapeyre
Saskatchewan nurses have a long history of enlisting and serving in the military. Working overseas in military hospitals and casualty clearing stations, these nurses played an integral role during military times. In 1917, lacking equality and the right to vote, nurses formed a professional licensing body while working tirelessly to provide safe and competent care to the citizens of Saskatchewan. When the call came to enlist, many nurses volunteered for war and many more remained at home and took care of the individuals, families, and communities in Saskatchewan. The nursing profession, as we know it today, has evolved from the changes and decisions made by those brave and innovative nurses of the past. A Portrait of Saskatchewan Nurses in Military Times is a historical book that focuses on the lives and experiences of many Saskatchewan nurses who served both at home and overseas during World Wars I and II. Authored by Dr. Sandra Bassendowski, with contributions from several nursing students from the Nursing Education Program of Saskatchewan (NEPS), this book delves into the past so that we may gain a different perspective of the nursing profession.
Available in November, 2012, all proceeds from book sales go towards a bursary with the Saskatchewan Nurses Foundation. Books can be purchased directly from Sandra Bassendowski at sandra.bassendowski@usask.ca or from the Saskatchewan Nurses Foundation. The book is $30 cash plus shipping fees.
Photo: Saskatchewan Archives Board R-A15549-5
Book launch: Caring and Compassion
October 31, 2011 by jlapeyre
Presentation and book signing
St. Ann’s Academy, 835 Humboldt Street, Victoria
Sunday, November 20, 2011- 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Notes on Nightingale: The Influence and Legacy of a Nursing Icon
August 2, 2010 by jlapeyre
by Sioban Nelson, Anne Marie Rafferty
Cornell Univ Pr, 2010 – 184 pages
$23.95
Florence Nightingale remains an inspiration to nurses around the world for her pioneering work treating wounded British soldiers during the Crimean War; authorship of Notes on Nursing, the foundational text for nursing practice; establishing the world’s first nursing school; and advocacy for the hygienic treatment of patients and sanitary design of hospitals. In Notes on Nightingale, nursing historians and scholars offer their valuable reflections on Nightingale and analysis of her role in the profession a century after her death on 13 August 1910 and 150 years since the Nightingale School of Nursing (now the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery at King’s College, London) opened its doors to probationers at St Thomas’ Hospital. There is a great deal of controversy about Nightingale-opinions about her life and work range from blind worship to blanket denunciation. The question of Nightingale and her place in nursing history and in contemporary nursing discourse is a topic of continuing interest for nursing students, teachers, and professional associations. This book offers new scholarship on Nightingale’s work in the Crimea and the British colonies and her connection to the emerging science of statistics, as well as valuable reevaluations of her evolving legacy and the surrounding myths, symbolism, and misconceptions.
New downloadable e-book- This is Public Health: A Canadian History
June 23, 2010 by jlapeyre
A new e-book, This is Public Health: A Canadian History, by Christopher Rutty and Sue Sullivan is now available. Follow the link below to access the book and take part in the richly illustrated and interactive history of public health from the time before Canada was a nation until 1986.
http://cpha100.ca/history/history-e-book
Photos and illustrations bring the story of public health alive. The history is dotted with profiles of the people who mobilized communities to promote health and to prevent disease and injury over the past 100 years. Decade by decade, the history tells the stories of sanitary reformers who fought to improve the living conditions of the whole community and prevent disease and injury. Environmental pollution, contaminated food and water, birth control, vaccination and nutrition were challenges 100 years ago and remain important and sometimes controversial issues today. The history ends with the development of the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion and what many consider to be the launch of a new era in public health. It’s striking how so many public health stories from the past still resonate today and this book is dedicated to Canada’s public health reformers, past and present, who strive to build a better, healthier future for all.
An Officer and a Lady by Cynthia Toman
January 25, 2010 by admin
An Officer and a Lady
Canadian Military Nursing and the Second World War
by Cynthia Toman
UBC Press 2007
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