June 1-3, 2013  Victoria, B.C

2013 CSHM/CAHN Program

For registration info see: http://cahn-achn.ca/annual-conference/

Historical Walking Tour Event 

Focus of the Tour: The History of Health Care in Victoria BC

Description: Victoria is British Columbia’s oldest major city and has a long history of health care. In a 90-minute walk that spans Old Town and Chinatown the tour will discuss First Nations medicine (especially the use of natural remedies), visit Helmcken House (the oldest house in the province and home of Dr. John S. Helmcken, pioneer doctor and founding president of the BC Medical Association), point out the sites of some of the province’s oldest hospitals (including St. Joseph’s, the first Royal Hospital and the Marine Hospital), go to the site of Dr. Helmcken’s office, pass by the sites of several pioneer drug stores, visit a Chinese herbalist shop, and discuss the first Chinese Hospital of the mid-1880s. This tour is led by prominent Victoria historian John Adams.

Date: June 3^rd 2013

Location: Meet at the main doors to the Royal Victoria Museum, Belville Street entrance at 3:00 pm. The tour will last until 4:30. Please bring comfortable walking shoes and an umbrella in case it rains, as well as a rain jacket.

Cost: $20.00 cash on arrival at the tour.

$10.00 of the cost of the tour will go to a scholarship award for a graduating student in the UVic Post RN BSN Diploma Program.

Registration required. Please contact Margaret Scaia at mrscaia@uvic.ca or 250-598-9994 for further information or to register.

 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

Call for Papers
Workshop: Prosopography of Healthcare
Date: 1 June 2013
Venue: Kingston University

There is a growing band of historians conducting prosopographical projects on topics relating to healthcare. The subjects of known projects span the centuries and the trades, from mediaeval to the 20th century, including nursing and medicine. A small group of nursing prosopographers (brought together originally through Katherine Keats-Rowan’s excellent, but now mothballed, Centre for Prosopography at Oxford) has decided the time is right to convene a new group. This call for papers is to anyone who is, has been, or is thinking of working on the history of healthcare, using prosopography as an integral methodology. We plan to convene a workshop/conference to discuss current and future projects, share ideas and experiences. If you are interested in participating please send a short abstract (200 words) describing your project (or project idea) to arrive by 28 February 2013, to Sue Hawkins at s.e.hawkins@kingston.ac.uk.

Conveners: Sue Hawkins  (Centre for the Historical Record, Kingston University); Carmen Mangion (Dept. History, Birkbeck College London; Helen Sweet, Wellcome History of Medicine Unit, Oxford University).

The Nursing History Research Unit is offering an annual scholarship of $10,000 (maximum) for PhD, MScN, or MA students who want to undertake a thesis project using historical perspectives. MScN and MA students must be in the second year of their program to qualify. Applications must be submitted by 1 May of each year. The successful applicant will be notified late spring and will take up the award the following fall.  Award winners may re-apply each year but are not guaranteed funding.

Purpose:  To promote the use of historical perspectives on social, cultural, and political aspects of nursing and/or health, broadly defined.

Eligibility Requirements:  Students must be

1. Registered full-time in a graduate program in the Faculty of Health Sciences, History, or Women’s Studies at the University of Ottawa.

2. Committed to research on historical perspectives on social, cultural, and political aspects of health-related topics to develop a critical analysis of contemporary issues

3. Willing to be supervised or co-supervised by a member of the Nursing History Research Unit.

4.  Have demonstrated ability in writing in either English or French.

5.  Willing to take relevant course(s) offered by the Unit and/or other historical, methodological courses as required by supervisor.

Proposal:

Applicants must submit a two-page (maximum) proposal. The proposal should include:

1. A clear description of the project and the rationale or objectives for the choice of this topic.

2. The importance of the project for the history of health (care) or nursing.

3. A small literature review to indicate some familiarity with the context of the project

4. If possible, an indication of the primary source material to be used.

Applications are subjected to a rigorous review process by a Unit committee and the strength of the proposal will determine its priority for funding.

1. Students must provide proof of current enrollment or intent to enroll in a graduate program in the Faculty of Health Sciences, History, or Women’s Studies at the University of Ottawa.

2. Applications must be completed fully and signed.

3. The application form must be submitted electronically (attached to an email) to Jayne Elliott (jelliott@uottawa.ca), Research Facilitator of the Nursing History Research Unit, by 1 May of the year for which the award is requested.

NHRU Scholarship Application Form

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L’Unité de recherche sur l’histoire des soins infirmiers offre une bourse annuelle de 10,000 $ (maximum) aux étudiant-e-s dans un programme de doctorat ou de maîtrise en sciences infirmières ou qui veulent entreprendre un projet de thèse, en matière de santé, en utilisant une perspective historique. Les étudiant-e-s à la maîtrise doivent être dans la deuxième année de leur programme pour être éligibles à cette bourse. Les demandes doivent être soumises avant le 1er mai de chaque année. Les candidat-e-s retenu-e-s seront avisé-e-s à la fin du printemps et recevront leur bourse au début de l’année universitaire en septembre. Les lauréat-e-s au doctorat pourront postuler à chaque année, toutefois sans garanties d’obtenir une autre bourse.

Objectif: promouvoir la recherche qui contribue à l’historiographie en matière de santé selon une histoire sociale, culturelle ou politique.

Critères d’admissibilité:

1. Être inscrit-e-s à temps plein dans un programme d’études supérieures de l’Université d’Ottawa – à la Faculté des sciences de la santé, en histoire ou à l’Institut d’études des femmes ;
2. Proposer un projet de recherche mettant en valeur le contexte historique sur les aspects sociaux, culturels ou politiques et développer une analyse critique des enjeux contemporains en matière de santé ;
3. Rédiger une thèse sous la direction ou la codirection d’un membre de l’Unité de recherche sur l’histoire des soins infirmiers ;
4. Maîtriser le français ou l’anglais écrit ;
5. Être disposer à prendre des cours d’histoire et/ou de méthodologie offerts par l’École des sciences infirmières ou par le département d’histoire, si le directeur ou co-directeur de thèse le juge pertinent.

Préparation du dossier :

Les candidat-e-s doivent soumettre une proposition de deux pages (maximum), spécifiquement :

1. Présenter la thématique à l’étude :
   1. Description du contexte
   2. Objectifs visés
   3. Problématique
2. Spécifier l’importance du projet pour l’histoire de la santé ou des soins infirmiers ;
3. Inclure une brève revue de la littérature pour indiquer une certaine familiarité avec le sujet à l’étude ;
4. Identifier, si possible, les principales sources primaires du corpus à l’étude.

Les demandes seront remises à un comité, formé par les membres de l’Unité, et soumises à un rigoureux processus d’évaluation.

1. Fournir une preuve d’inscription ou d’intention à s’inscrire à un programme de la Faculté des études supérieures et postdoctorales de l’Université d’Ottawa ;
2. Remplir et signer le formulaire de demande de bourse ;

Remettre par voie électronique (jointe à un courriel) à Jayne Elliott (jelliott@uottawa.ca), coordonnatrice de l’Unité de recherche sur l’histoire des soins infirmiers, le dossier avant le 1er mai de l’année pour laquelle la bourse est demandée.

Formulaire de demande

Histories on the Edge/Histoires sur la brèche

Toronto: May 22-25, 2014    Proposals due: January 15, 2013

The sixteenth Berkshire Conference on Women’s History will be held in Toronto on May 22-25, 2014. The University of Toronto will host the first Canadian “Big Berks” in collaboration with co-sponsoring units and universities in Toronto and across Canada.

Within the conference’s subtheme of: Bodies, Health, Medical Technologies, and Science, we are organizing one, or possibly two, panels on Women and Science. This can be broadly interpreted as the gendered history of the scientific professions; as well as women’s encounters with technologies, including pharmaceuticals, diagnostic tools and therapeutics, and old and new reproductive technologies and procedures.

We are endeavouring to build a panel across national boundaries, with papers ranging from the pre-modern (ancient, medieval, early modern) periods to recent history. As a forum dedicated to encouraging innovative, cross-disciplinary scholarship, and transnational conversation, we invite submissions from graduate students, international scholars, independent scholars, filmmakers, educators, curators, artists, activists, and welcome a variety of perspectives.

This panel is being sponsored by the Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, an international, cross-disciplinary journal which publishes in English and French. Successful submissions will be considered for a special issue of the Bulletin.

Individual Papers: The submission file should include your name, paper title, and a 250-word abstract.  Please also submit a short c.v.

Submissions and queries should be sent to:

For more information about the Berkshire Conference, see: http://berksconference.org

It is with great sadness that we announce that Beverly passed away on November 22, 2012. Beverly was born in Vancouver and, although she worked in many different places, she remained a proud Vancouverite. Her academic career was stellar. She graduated from John Oliver High School at age 16 with the highest marks in the province. She is a graduate of both UBC and the Vancouver General Hospital School of Nursing and obtained her Master’s degree from the University of Washington. Beverly travelled the globe working as a nurse educator for WHO, PAHO and other organizations. She was particularly proud of her work in pioneering distance education for nurses, both in Canada and abroad. Beverly obtained her Doctorate in Adult Education in 1969 from UBC. She was subsequently awarded the Order of British Columbia, the Order of Canada and the Queen’s Jubilee Medal. Beverly was head of the nursing school at VGH for many years and loved to tell stories about her experiences there. She was an accomplished author of nursing textbooks and, after her first stroke, self- published two books full of entertaining accounts of her travels and experiences. She was an inspiration to countless nurses as well as to her vast network of friends around the world and, most of all, to her family.  In lieu of flowers, donations to St. Faith’s Church or the UBC School of Nursing Scholarship Fund would be appreciated.