Lavinia L. Dock Award Recipients

~2022~
Susan Grant, PhD
Soviet Nightingales: Care Under Communism

~2021~
Jean Whelan, PhD, RN
Nursing the Nation, Building the Nurse Labor Force

~2020~
Kylie Smith, PhD
Talking Therapy-Knowledge and Power in American Psychiatric Nursing

~2019~

Jenny M. Luke
Delivered by Midwives: African American Midwifery in the Twentieth-Century South

~2018~

Susan Armstrong-Reid  
China Gadabouts: New Frontiers of Humanitarian Nursing, 1941-51

~2017~
Charissa Threat, PhD
Nursing Civil Rights: Gender and Race in the Army Nurse Corps.
 
~2016~
Barbara Man Wall, Phd, RN
Into Africa
 

~2015~
Tommy Dickinson, PhD,  MSc, BSc (Hons), Adv DipHE, RN
“Curing Queers”: Mental Health Nurses and their Patients, 1935-1974

~2014~
Naomi Rogers, PhD
Polio Wars: Sister Kenny and the Golden Age of American Medicine

~2013~
Karen Flynn, PhD
Moving Beyond Borders: A History of Black Canadian and Caribbean Women in the Diaspora

~2012~
Carol Helmstadter and Judith Godden
Nursing before Nightingale 1850 -1899

~2011~
Patricia D'Antonio, PhD, FAAN, RN
American Nursing: A History of Knowledge, Authority, and the Meaning of Work

~2010~
Kara Vuic, PhD
Officer, Nurse, Woman: The Army Nurse Corps in the Vietnam War

~2009~
Julie Fairman, PhD, RN, FAAN
Making Room in the Clinic: Nurse Practitioners and the Evolution of Modern Health Care

~2008~
Cynthia A. Connolly, PhD, RN
Saving Sickly Children: The Tuberculosis Preventorium in American Life, 1909-1970

~2007~
Arlene W. Keeling
Nursing and the privilege of prescription, 1893-2000

~2006~
Barbara Mann Wall
"Unlikely Entrepreneurs": Catholic Sisters and the Hospital Marketplace, 1865-1925

~2005~
Cynthia Connolly
Beyond Social History:
New Approaches to Understanding the State and the State of Nursing History

Martha Libster
Herbal Diplomats

~2004~
Tom Olson and Eileen Walsh
Handling the Sick, The Women of St. Luke's and the Nature of Nursing, 1892-1937

Arlene Keeling
Blurring the Boundaties Between Medicine and Nursing: Coronary Care Nursing, circa the 1960s

~2003~
Geertje Boschma
The Rise of Mental Health Nursing:
A History of Psychiatric Care in Dutch Asylums 1890-1920

Carol Helmstadter
Early Nurse Reform in Nineteenth Century London:
A Doctor Driven Phenomenon

~2002~
Ellen Murphy and Laurie Glass
AORN Emergence and Growth

Elaine S. Marshall and Barbra Mann Wall
Religion Gender and Autonomy - A Comparison of Two Religious Women's Groups in Nursing and Hospitals in the late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

~2001~
Patricia D'Antonio
Revisiting and Rethinking the Rewriting of Nursing History
Bulletin of the History of Medicine

Karen Buhler-Wilkerson
No Place Like Home: A History of Nursing and Home Care in the United States
Johns Hopkins University Press

~2000~
Mary T. Sarnecky, RN, PhD
A History of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

~1999~
Elizabeth M. Norman
We Band of Angels
New York: Random House

~1998~
Julie Fairman and Joan Lynaugh
Critical Care Nursing: A History
Philadelphia, Penn: University of Pennsylvania Press

~1997~
Susan Smith
Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired:
Black Women's Health Activism on America, 1890-1950
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania

~1996~
Michael Calabria & Janet Macrae (Eds.)
Suggestions for Thought by Florence Nightingale: Selections and Commentaries
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania

~1995~
Sandra Lewenson
Taking Charge: Nursing, Suffrage and Feminism in America, 1873-1920
New York: National League for Nursing

~1993~
Barbara Bates
Bargaining for Life: A Social History of Tuberculosis, 1876-1938
Philadelphia: University of Pensylvania

~1991~
Diane Hamilton
The Cost of Caring:
The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company's Visiting Nurse Service, 1909-1953
Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 63, 414-434

~1990~
Darlene Clark Hines
Black Women in White:
Racial Conflict and Cooperation in the Nursing Profession, 1890-1955

Indianapolis: University of Indiana

~1989~
Karen Buhler-Wilkerson
Public Health Nursing: In sickness or in health?
American Journal of Public Health 75(10)1155-1161

~1988~
Ellen Baer
"A Cooperative Venture" in Pursuit of Professional Status:
A Research Journal for Nursing

Nursing Research, 36 (10), 18-25

~1987~
Susan Reverby
Ordered to Care: The Dilemma of American Nursing
New York: Cambridge University