Nursing History Review, Volume 25

Nursing History Review, an annual peer-reviewed publication of the American Association for the History of Nursing, is a showcase for the most significant current research on nursing history. Regular sections include scholarly articles, over a dozen book reviews of the best publications on nursing and health care history that have appeared in the past year, and a section abstracting new doctoral dissertations on nursing history. Historians, researchers, and individuals fascinated with the rich field of nursing will find this an important resource. Included in Volume 25 Compassionate Care Through the Centuries: Highlights in Nursing History Endeavoring to Carry On Their Work: The National Debate Over Midwives and Its Impact in Rhode Island, 1890-1940 A Powerful Protector of the Japanese People: The History of the Japanese Fishermens Hospital in Steveston, British Columbia, Canada, 1896-1942 Confectionery Care: The Child as a Category of Historical Analysis Doctors Dont Do So Much Good: Traditional Practices, Biomedicine, and Infant Care in the 20th-Century United States