Barbara Bates Center for The Study of The History of Nursing
 

For further information—e-mail Betsy Weiss at  ehweiss@nursing.upenn.edu or call 215-898-4502

Fall 2007 - Spring 2008 Seminars

8/8/07 - christoph Schweikardt, MD, MA

Institute for Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, Ruhr-University, Bochum, Germany

Nursing at the German Hospital in Philadelphia in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries - Challenges and Perspectives

9/12/07 - Susanne Kreutzer, PhD
Institute of Sociology, Leibniz University of Hanover, Germany
Christian Charity Service and the Professionalization of Nursing:  A Comparison Between West Germany and the United States

9/19/07 - Emily Abel, PhD
Professor, Health Services and Women’s Studies
University of California Los Angeles School of Public Health
Tuberculosis and the Politics of Exclusion: A History of Public Health and Migration to Los Angeles

9/26/07 - Jean Whelan, PhD, RN

Adjunct Professor, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing
Necessary Yet Unaffordable: The Disconnect Between Private Duty Nurses Fees and Patient Ability to Pay, 1900-1940

10/01/07 - Anne Marie Rafferty, PhD
Professor, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery
 Kings College, London
 

10/03/07 - Barbara Savage, phd
Professor, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania
The Social Science of Black Religion
 

10/17/07 - Sandy Lewenson, PhD, Professor of Nursing
Pace University, Lienhard School of Nursing
Transformation of Nursing Education: The Phasing Out of the Bellevue & Mills
Schools of Nursing and the Expansion of Hunter College, 1967

10/24/07 - Jane Schultz, PhD, Professor of English and Adjunct Professor of American Studies and Women’s Studies
 Indiana University-Purdue University
What’s In a Nurse?: The Civil War Diary of Harriet Eaton
 

10/31/07 - Anette Forss, PhD
Division of Nursing, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden
At the Margins of Health and Normality - Women's Encounters with Biomedical Technology in the Realm of Cervical Cancer Screening

11/14/07 - Amy Hillier, PhD, Assistant Professor
School of Design, Penn
Mapping the DuBois Philadelphia Negro

11/28/07 -  Dominque Tobbell, Doctoral Student
Department of History and Sociology of Science, Penn
Allied Against Reform: Pharmaceutical Industry-Academic Physician Relations in the United States, 1945-1970

12/12/07 - Cynthia Connolly, PhD, Associate Professor
Yale University, School of Nursing
Bearing Witness:” Nurses and the AIDS Epidemic in the United States, 1981-2001

1/23/08 -  Yvonne McKeown, MSc(History), MSc(Nursing),
 Bates Center Fisher Fellow
 University of Edinburgh
 Centre for the Study of the Two World Wars
Wounds of the Spirit: Shell Shock in Front Line Nurses and Female Combatants

2/6/08 - Keith Mages, Doctoral Student
University of Pennsylvania
 Print Culture & Nursing

2/20/08 - Allison Squires, PhD, RN, Post-Doctoral Fellow
Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research
University of Pennsylvania
Monks & Revolutions: Early Foundations of Mexican Nursing

3/05/08 - Roger Lane, Phd,
Benjamin R. Collins Research Professor of Social Sciences, Haverford College
A discussion about researching African-American history in Philadelphia.

3/19/08 - James Schafer PhD
Visiting Fellow/Faculty, Drexel University,
Pennoni Honors College
"The Geography of Health Care in Early Twentieth Century American Cities"

4/2/08 - Julie Sochalski, PhD, RN
Associate Professor
University of Pennsylvania, School of Nursing
“Policy, Politics and the International History of Nurse Staffing Ratios”

4/16/08 - Matthew D. McHugh PhD, CRNP, MPH, JD
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research University of Pennsylvania, School of Nursing
“A Framework for Public Health Policy Evaluation Research”

4/30/08 - Beth Linker, PhD
Assistant Professor Department of History and Sociology of Science University of Pennsylvania
“(Wo)manly Workers:  Gender and Rehabilitation in World War I”