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Luther Parmalee Christman (February 26, 1915 – June 7, 2011) was an American nurse, professor of nursing, university administrator and advocate for gender and racial diversity in nursing. His career included service with the Michigan Department of Mental Health and academic posts at the University of Michigan , Vanderbilt University and Rush ...
The advance of American Nursing (3rd ed 1996) online, A standard scholarly history. Leavitt. Judith W. and R.L. Numbers, eds. Sickness and health in America: Readings in the history of medicine and public health (3rd ed. 1997). Lerner, Monroe, and Odin W. Anderson. Health progress in the United States, 1900–1960 (1963) online; Loving, David A.
For textbooks, many schools used: A Manual of Training (1878); A Hand-Book of Nursing for Family and General Use (1878); A Text-Book of Nursing for the Use of Training Schools, Families, and Private Students (1885); and Nursing: Its Principles and Practice for Hospital and Private Use (1893). These books defined the curriculum of the new ...
The Lavinia L. Dock Award is for a book noteworthy for excellence in research and writing. The Mary Adelaide Nutting Award acknowledges the author of a post-doctoral article in the history of nursing. The Mary M. Roberts Award is for a noteworthy, edited book on the history of nursing. Eligibility for the awards is restricted to AHN members.
One of the founders of the sociology of health and illness is Talcott Parsons, an American sociologist, who analyzed the relationship between patients and their doctors in his book The Social System written in 1951. In his sick role theory, [9] he argued that people who were sick adopted a social role, not just a biological condition. Those who ...
It was a co-winner of a Tennessee History Book Award and was recognized with a 1999 American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) Award of Merit. [2] [3] An online edition of the encyclopedia has been on the Internet since 2002. It includes the contents of the book plus some new entries and some multimedia content.
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Lavinia Lloyd Dock (February 26, 1858 – April 17, 1956) was an American nurse, feminist, writer, pioneer in nursing education and social activist. [1] Dock was an assistant superintendent at Johns Hopkins School of Nursing under Isabel Hampton Robb. She founded what would become the National League for Nursing with Robb and Mary Adelaide Nutting.