2010 CAHN-ACHN Conference Program and Abstracts
June 23, 2010 by jlapeyre
Follow the link below to see a copy of the conference program, including abstracts, from the 2010 conference in Winnipeg, MB. Stay tuned to this site for a conference report later this summer!
Appel pour des propositions de communication: conférence annuelle du 18 au 20 juin 2010
January 19, 2010 by admin
Transmission d’un héritage, contingences et lignes de fracture : les soins infirmiers 100 ans après Florence Nightingale Un siècle après sa mort, Florence Nightingale domine toujours l’histoire des soins infirmiers, particulièrement dans le monde anglophone où le statut de praticien est revendiqué en alléguant un corpus universel de connaissances et un domaine d’exercice professionnel uniforme longtemps inspirés de sa vie. Cependant, ces praticiens ont au cours du dernier quart de siècle de plus en plus retenu l’attention des historiens dans le but de mettre en lumière leur diversité, les contingences de leurs conditions de travail et la place des soins qu’ils prodiguent au sein de projets sociaux et, au cours de l’histoire, nationaux et impériaux.
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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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