VOLUME 15, 2007

GUEST EDITOR'S NOTES
Requiem for the American Journal of Nursing
ELLEN D. BAER

Nursing History
BARBRA MANN WALL

MONICA BALY LECTURE
Rewriting Nursing History - Again?
CELIA DAVIES

ARTICLES
Florence Nightingale's Nursing Practice
JOYCE SCHROEDER MACQUEEN

The Nursing Radicalism of the Honourable Albinia Brodrick, 1861-1955
ANN WICKHAM

"The Ultimate Destination of All Nursing": The Development of District Nursing in England, 1880-1925 
CARRIE HOWSE

"Much Instruction Needed Here": The Work of Nurses in Rural Wisconsin During the Depression
RIMA D. APPLE

Reweaving a Tapestry of Care: Faith, Presence, and the Meaning of Hospice, 1945-1978
JOY BUCK

RESEARCH REPORTS 
The Rise and Demise of the Colonial Nursing Service: British Nurses in the Colonies 1896-1966
ANNE MARIE RAFFERTY AND DIANA SOLANO

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Florence Nightingale's Opposition to State Registration of Nurses
CAROL HELMSTADTER

Commentary 
LINDA FREEMAN 

BOOK REVIEWS

Nightingales: The Extraordinary Upbringing and Curious Life of Miss Florence Nightingale by Gillian Gill
Reviewer: Cynthia Connolly

Bermerkungen zur Krankenpflege (Notes on Nursing) by Florence Nightingale, with commentary by Christoph Schweikardt and Susanne Schulze-Jaschok
Reviewer: Joyce Schroeder MacQueen

Turn Backward, O Time: The Civil War Diary of Amanda Shelton by Kathleen Hanson
Reviewer: Teresa M. O'Neill

Unlikely Entrepreneurs: Catholic Sisters and the Hospital Marketplace, 1865-1925 by Barbra Mann Wall
Reviewer: Patricia D'Antonio

When Matron Ruled by Peter Ardern
Reviewer: Carol Helmstadter

Latter-day Saints at War: A Story of Caring and Sacrifice by Patricia Rushton, Lynn Clark-Callister, and Maile K. Wilson
Reviewer: Jennifer M. Casavant

Alcoholism in America: From Reconstruction to Prohibition by Sarah W. Tracy
Reviewer: Kara Dixon Vuic

Unnatural Selections: Eugenics in American Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance by Daylanne K. English
Reviewer: Mollie K. Hanlon

Motherhood in Bondage by Margaret Sanger; foreword by Margaret Marsh
Reviewer: Lisa Stern Slifka

(Compassion and Competence: Nursing in Mandatory Palestine, 1918-1948) by Nira Bartal
Reviewer: Ilana Kadmon

Care to Remember: Nursing and Midwifery in Ireland edited by Gerard M. Fealy
Reviewer: Patricia D'Antonio

On All Frontiers: Four Centuries of Canadian Nursing edited by Christina Bates, Dianne Dodd, and Nicole Rousseau
Reviewer: Sonya Grypma

"Must We All Die?"Alaska's Enduring Struggle with Tuberculosis by Robert Fortuine
Reviewer: Marjorie Porter

Pain and Profits: The History of the Headache and its Remedies in America by Jan R. McTavish
Reviewer: Jean C. Whelan

Choice and Coercion: Birth Control, Sterilization, and Abortion in Public Health and Welfare by Johanna Schoen
Reviewer: Rebekah Fox

Dying to be Beautiful: The Fight for Safe Cosmetics by Gwen Kay
Reviewer: Lynne M. Dunphy

One Nation Uninsured: Why the U.S. Has No National Health Insurance by Jill Quadagno
Reviewer: Jonathan Gilbride

Health Security for All: Dreams of Universal Health Care in America by Alan Derickson
Reviewer: Joy Buck

Nursing Against the Odds: How Health Care Cost Cutting, Media Stereotypes, and Medical Hubris Undermine Nurses and Patient Care by Suzanne Gordon
Reviewer: Marcella Rutherford

Autism and the Myth of the Person Alone by Douglas Biklen with Richard Attfield, Larry Bissonnette, Lucy Blackman, Jamie Burke, Alberto Frugone, Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay, and Sue Rubin
Reviewer: Patricia A. White

First Do No Harm: Power, Oppression and Violence in Health Care edited by Nancy L. Diekelmann
Reviewer: Vern L. Bullough

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