[...]... Nations: A History of the International Council of Nurses, 1899–1999 She has been in uential in the nurturing of a new generation of historians of nursing associated with the American Association for the History of Nursing and the Center for the Study of the History of Nursing xiv Contributors Susan McGann has been the archivist for the Royal College of Nursing since 1986 Her publications include The Battle... disappeared In her view, nursing had found a new catalyst to delineate a professional identity, the creation and expansion of contemporary nursing theory Maggs also mused about the relationship between nursing theory and the history of nursing He wondered if the new theories of caring might contribute to a history that did truly examine the history of nursing, i.e caring, rather than the history of nurses... evidence of the strengthening community of scholars, the sustainability of the enterprise and the continued spread of nursing history into new international domains Significantly, there is continuity with some familiar themes of research: the relationship between nursing and the state, representations of nurses in the media, international in uences, the politics of childbirth, conflict with the medical profession,... are pushing out the boundaries in new areas of investigation One of the dilemmas of the history of any profession remains for the history of nursing Who should write this history and who is it written for? Nelson pondered this question at length in her essay The fork in the roadʼ She commented that the traditional readership for the history of nursing, among the alumni of famous hospital training schools,... Inquiry Joan E Lynaugh is Professor Emerita and Associate Director of the Center for the Study of the History of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania Her work in establishing the Center has been recognized by the award of many honors over the years She has published widely on the history of nursing and was the driving force behind the centenary history of the International Council of Nurses Nurses of. .. studies of women As nursing has been a predominantly female occupation, it might appear that the history of nursing would play a significant role in this historical expansion Many of the dominant themes in womenʼs history have proved to have direct relevance to the history of nursing The powerful in uence of domesticity in the lives of women, including nurses, can be traced in the work of Summers, Vicinus,... Abel Smith in 1960 of A History of the Nursing Profession marked a new phenomenon, the direction of serious attention to the history of nursing by non-nurses.1 However, Abel Smith, interested in social policy, made it clear in the introduction to his book that he proposed to write a political history of nursing; he saw himself as unfitted to write ʻa history of nursing techniques or of nursing as an... nursing knowledge.66 NURSING AND THE MILITARY Nursing and the military has been a strong and confusing theme in the historiography of nursing Agendas of emancipation, patriotism, heroism and the glorification of sacrifice are all enmeshed in an account that juxtaposes traditional masculine values with a disturbing incursion of the feminine In Britain since the Crimean war and in the USA since the Civil War... The Battle of the Nurses (1992), biographical studies of eight women who in uenced the development of professional nursing She is a co-director of the UK Centre for the History of Nursing Barbara Mortimer is a nurse historian and lecturer and co-director to the UK Centre for the History of Nursing Her PhD in 2002 investigated the careers of private nurses in Edinburgh, Scotland, in the mid-nineteenth... historians In this environment, the questions that are posed and the thinking that goes into them are inevitably informed by both the world of nursing and the world of history 16 Barbara Mortimer NOTES 1 B Abel-Smith, A History of the Nursing Profession, London: Heinemann, 1960 2 Ibid., p xi 3 E V E Whittaker, and V Olesen, The faces of Florence Nightingale: functions of the heroine legend in an occupational . nurturing of a new generation of historians of nursing associated with the American Association for the History of Nursing and the Center for the Study of. examined the construction of professionalism in nursing since the Second World War. She is the administrative coordinator of the Womenʼs Health Of ce in