Associated Medical Services
NURSING HISTORY RESEARCH UNIT

MISSION

To actively promote the production and dissemination of new knowledge in Canadian nursing history.

To promote awareness of the importance of history in the changing health care system.

OBJECTIVES

Train scholars in nursing history at masters, doctoral and postdoctoral levels.

Support publication of new historical research in Canadian nursing.

Link francophone and anglophone scholars through joint projects, conferences, and seminars.

Promote history within nursing school curricula across the country.

Promote interdisciplinary and interprofessional historical research in health.

Support the preservation of primary sources.

Develop comprehensive resource bibliographies for Canadian nursing history.

Collaborate with other nursing history units at national and international levels.

 

History is our source of identity, our cultural DNA; it affords us collective immortality.  History yields self-knowledge by structuring a mind capable of imagining life beyond one's own life span.  History continuously proposes new ideas, values and experiences, thus creating and recreating culture and discipline.  History explains connections and patterns among events.

                                            Joan Lynaugh, Nursing History Review 4 (1996), used with permission.