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Nursing History - eBooks

History As Evidence by Patricia D'Antonio; Sandra Lewenson
ISBN: 9780826105776
Publication Date: 2010-09-01
Nursing Before Nightingale, 1815-1899 by Carol Helmstadter; Judith Godden
ISBN: 9781409423133
Publication Date: 2011-11-28
No Place Like Home: A History of Nursing and Home Care in the United States by Karen Buhler-Wilkerson
ISBN: 9780801873188
Publication Date: 2003-03-07
A History of American Nursing by Deborah Judd; Kathleen Sitzman
ISBN: 1449697208
Publication Date: 2013-03-22

History of Nursing Websites

American Nurses Association Hall of Fame
NAHRS History of Nursing Page
The NAHRS (Nursing and Allied Health Resources) section of the Medical Library Association has compiled a list of resources on nursing history websites.
Pictures of Nursing - NLM Exhibition Program
Pictures of Nursing is a beautifully curated and fascinating online exhibit from the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
History of Nursing Resource Guide
Helpful links compiled by librarians at Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries
AAHN Nursing History Review
Clara Barton National Historic Site (U.S. National Park Service)
Clendening History of Medicine Library: Nightingale Letters
Office of Medical History - Army Nurse Corps History
Smithsonian: The Diary of a Civil War Nurse

Nursing History Print Books

100 Years of American Nursing by Thelma M. Schorr; Maureen Shawn Kennedy
Call Number: RT4 .S375 1999
ISBN: 0781718651
Publication Date: 1999-04-20
Nursing by M. Patricia Donahue
Call Number: OVERSIZE RT31 .D66 1985
ISBN: 9780801614248
Publication Date: 1985-05-01
American Nursing by Patricia D'Antonio
Call Number: RT4 .D357 2010
ISBN: 9780801895654
Publication Date: 2010-07-11
A history of nursing, from ancient to modern times; a world view. by Isabel Maitland Stewart, Anne L Austin
Call Number: RT31 .S7
Publication Date: 1962
A History of Nursing Ideas by Linda C. Andrist; Patrice K. Nicholas; Karen Anne Wolf
Call Number: RT31 .H575 2006
ISBN: 0763722898
Publication Date: 2005-10-12
The Path We Tread:Blacks in nursing, 1854-1984 by Mary Elizabeth Carnegie
Call Number: RT83.5 .C37 1986
ISBN: 9780397546022
Publication Date: 1986-04-01
And If I Perish by Evelyn Monahan; Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee
Call Number: D807 .U6 M66 2003
ISBN: 9780375415142
Publication Date: 2003-11-04