Fall Seminar
October 2011
The Rationalization of Nursing in West Germany, 1945-1970
Susanne Kreutzer, Department of Humanities, Nursing Science,University of Osnabrück
September 2010
Sean Smith, a 2010 graduate of the BScN program at the University of Ottawa, received the 2010 Margaret M. Allemang History of Nursing award from the Margaret M. Allemang Society for the History of Nursing. His award was based on the paper he wrote as part of NSG 4101 on the history of Canadian aboriginal health and infectious diseases in the postwar period.June 2010
Brandi Vanderspank, a PhD student in the School of Nursing at the University of Ottawa supervised jointly by Cynthia Toman and Frances Fothergill Bourbonnais, is the recipient of the 2010 Canadian Association for the History of Nursing doctoral scholarship.SPRING 2010
Friday 26 March 2010
“Aboriginal Women and White Settler Families: Negotiating Health Care in Western Canada, 1880-1930”, Dr Kristin Burnett, Department of History , Lakehead University
Véronique Gladu Adam, a Métis woman midwife, born 1856
Spring 2009
SPRING SEMINAR
Sponsored by the AMS Nursing History Research Unit
Friday, 3 April 2009
Patricia D'Antonio, PhD
Associate Professor of Nursing,
University of Pennsylvania
"Competence, Coolness, and Control of Clinical Moments
Re -thinking the Trope of Obedience in Nursing”This paper re-considers the currently disparaged emphasis on nurses’ need to embody traits of discipline, loyalty, and obedience. Certainly, representations of disciplined, loyal, and respectful practice remained important. But these representations were also presented by nurses among themselves and to their public as traits that served the production of even more important ones: those of competence, coolness, courage, and absolute control of the clinical moment. And such traits drew nurses into the prestigious scientific orbit of modern medicine and differentiated them and their work from their main competitors: equally modern, middle-class mothers.
These representations, I argue, did create a shared, internalized, and fairly stable conceptualization of “nursing” and, as importantly, a strong nursing identity. They ran across – although never bridged – racial, gendered, and classed divide. But they did provide a common scaffolding upon which nurses’ built additional meanings attendant upon their particular gendered, racialized, classed, and geographic worlds. In the end, nurses’ representations of nursing created powerfully imagined (if not always real) communities of meaning throughout the United States. And such meanings encouraged nurses to consider themselves empowered participants in the battle against disease in homes and hospitals throughout the country.
Fall 2008
School of Nursing 75th Anniversary
Gala, 19 September 2008
Capping Ceremony 1958
University of Ottawa Archives PHO-NB-73-236
Spring 2008
Spring Seminar: 'Their Uniforms all Esthetic and Antiseptic': Creating Nursing Identity, 1870-1914. Presented by Tina Bates, Curator, Museum of Civilization, Friday 4 April 2008.
