Nursing History before the lady with the lamp
Tickets are still available for the “‘A Species of Knowledge’: Women and Medicine 1750-1850” interdisciplinary symposium!
April 5, 12:30-6pm Keynes Library, Birkbeck School of Arts
For tickets visit Eventbrite here more information about the speakers, including keynote speaker Professor Hilary Marland, available on the symposium website.
I will be presenting: ‘Seniority, Experience, and On-the-job Training at British Naval Hospitals 1775-1815’
Excited to be heading to San Diego for the 2018 AAHN conference. It is my first time presenting a joint paper with my colleague Glenn Iceton! Our paper examines frontier nursing activities by Anglican missionaries Isaac and Sadie Stringer in the Yukon. The paper specifically considers the gendered and colonial dynamics of healthcare delivery in the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries among whaling and indigenous communities on Herschel Island.
Join our panel at 1 pm on September 14 in Point Loma A.
Missionary Nurses
1. Sisters of Mercy: The walking Nun’s Siouxland Journey & Experiences in nursing-Diane Smith
2. American Missionary Nurses negotiate a place in the mission: The politics of application, assignment and resignation-Lydia Wytenbroek
3. Sadie and Isaac Stringer, Herschel Island and Northern missionary healthcare in the late-19th Century-Erin Spinney, Glenn Iceton
Excited to join my history of medicine and history of nursing colleagues at the SSHM 2018! My paper “Nursing Careers at Haslar and Plymouth Naval Hospitals, 1769-1800” counters historiographical preconceptions about pre-Nightingale nursing through a detailed analysis of the nursing workforce at Plymouth and Haslar Naval Hospitals, in conjunction with the nursing regulations for naval medical care. As the experiences of nurses at Plymouth Naval Hospital show, the physical stability of naval hospitals allowed for nurses to develop healing and care skills over a period of longstanding employment.
The full conference programme is available here.
