Sweating, purging, and a passion for care : the yellow fever nurse in the deep South in the early nineteenth century -- Determining children's "best interests" in the midst of an epidemic : a cautionary tale from history -- Treating influenza 1918 and 2010 : recycled interventions -- "An obstinate and sometimes gangrenous sore" : prevention and nursing care of bedsores, 1900 to the 1940s -- Body, soul, and service : Catholic sister-nurses in late nineteenth and early twentieth century hospitals -- Bridging the gaps : collaborative health work in the City of Brotherly Love, 1900-1920 -- Filling the gaps in community care : parish nurses working out of congregations -- Obstetric nursing : for the patient or the doctor? -- Nursing patients with cancer in the 1950s : new issues and old challenges -- Trial and negotiation in a technological system : case study of the Swan-Ganz catheter -- Black Canadian nurses and technology -- To avoid expense and suffering : public health nurses and the struggle for health services -- The visit : nurse practitioners and the negotiation of practice -- Nursing the borderlands of life : hospice and the politics of health care reform.
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