VOLUME 12, 2004

EDITOR'S NOTE
Patricia D'Antonio

THEORY AND PRACTICE
Beyond Social History: New Approaches to Understanding the State of and the State in Nursing History
CYNTHIA ANNE CONNOLLY

Home Hospice versus Home Health: Cooperation, Competition, and Co-Optation
JOY BUCK

ARTICLES
"A Law Unto Themselves:" Black Women as Patients and Practitioners in North Carolina's Campaign to Reduce Maternal and Infant Mortality, 1935-1953 
KAREN KRUSE THOMAS

Breaking into Public Service: The Development of Nursing in Nationalist China
JOHN WATT

Neither "Angels of Mercy" Nor "Foreign Devils:" Revisioning Canadian Missionary Nurses in China, 1937-1945 
SONYA GRYPMA

"You Gained Honor for Your Profession as a Brown Nurse:" The Career of a Nationalist Socialist Nurse Mirrored by Her Letters Home
CHRISTOPH SCHWEIKARDT

Blurring the Boundaries Between Medicine and Nursing: Coronary Care Nursing, Circa 1960s 
ARLENE W. KEELING

IN MEMORIUM 
Barbara Bates, 1928-2002
JULIE FAIRMAN

REVIEW ESSAY 
Knowledge Systems in Conflict: The Regulation of African-American Midwifery
ZEINA OMISOLA JONES

NOTES AND DOCUMENTS 
The Chautauqua School: Two Pamphlets from the Past
VERN L. BULLOUGH

The Nursing History Bibliographic Project: Doctoral Dissertations in the History of Nursing
JONATHON ERLEN 

BOOK REVIEWS 
A Short History of Medicine, Reprint of the 1982 Edition by Edwin H. Ackerknecht
Reviewer: Barbara Brodie

Bathsheba's Breast: Women, Cancer and History by James S. Olson
Reviewer: Mary Tarbox

Breast Cancer Wars: Hope, Fear and the Pursuit of a Cure in Twentieth Century America by Barron H. Lerner 
Reviewer: Cynthia A. Connolly

The Deadly Truth: A History of Disease in America by Gerald N. Grob Reviewer: Karol K. Weaver

Civil War Sisterhood: The U.S. Sanitary Commission and Women's Politics in Transition by Judith Ann Giesberg 
Reviewer: Mary Ann Cordeau

Florence Nightingale: The Making of a Radical by Val Webb 
Reviewer: JoAnn G. Widerquist

Authorized to Heal: Gender, Class and the Transformation of Medicine in Appalachia, 1880-1930 by Sandra Lee Barney 
Reviewer: Susan L. Smith

Working Cures: Healing, Health and Power on Southern Plantations by Sharla M. Fett 
Reviewer: Sylvia Rinker

Creating Mental Illness by Allen V. Horwitz 
Reviewer: Diane Hamilton

Nursing, Physician Control, and the Medical Monopoly: Historical Perspectives on Gendered Inequality in Roles, Rights, Range of Practice by Thetis M. Group and Joan L. Roberts 

Reviewer: Deborah A. Sampson

Faithfully Yours: A History of Nursing in Illinois by Karen J. Egenes and Wendy Kent Burgess 
Reviewer: Nettie Birnbach

Nurses at the Front: Writing the Wounds of the Great War by Margaret R. Higonnet, Editor Reviewer: Teresa M. O'Neill

AORN: Emergence and Growth by Laurie Glass and Ellen Murphy 
Reviewer: Thetis M. Group

The Red Cross and the Holocaust by Jean-Claude Favez, Beryl Fletcher (transl.) and John Fletcher (transl.) 
Reviewer: Ellen Ben-Sefer

Hildegard Peplau: Psychiatric Nurse of the Century by Barbara J. Calloway 
Reviewer: Vern L. Bullough

Trailblazers in Nursing Education: A Caribbean Perspective, 1946-1986 by Hermi Hyacinth Hewitt 
Reviewer: Lois Monteiro

Bioethics in America: Origins and Cultural Politics by M.L. Tina Stevens 
Reviewer: Nancy J. Crigger

Into Our Own Hands: The Women's Health Movement in the United States, 1969-1990 by Sandra Morgen 
Reviewer: Linda E. Sabin

Stories of Family Caregiving: Reconsiderations of Theory, Literature and Life by Suzanne Poirier and Lioness Ayres 
Reviewer: Joy Buck

NEW DISSERTATIONS