News from the Center

Kudos

This Spring Ellen Baer">

News from the Center

Kudos

This Spring Ellen Baer, PhD, RN, FAAN, was awarded the Agnes Dillon Randolph Award in recognition of her scholarship in the History of Nursing. Speaking to an audience of health professionals, faculty, students, and alumnae in the Moll Rare Book Room at the University of Virginia, Dr. Baer addressed the question "Has the definition of nursing changed in the era of managed care?"  Basing her analysis of the subject on her recent research, Dr. Baer concluded that "the basic foci of nursing have not changed in a century and a half...what has changed are the methods through which nurses act...these are vastly more complex." The event was co-sponsored by the Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry and the Beta Kappa Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International

Maple Leaves

At the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine (AAHM) in Toronto, Canada this past May, Dr. Joan Lynaugh chaired a session, Fashioning Medical Personas, and Dr. Julie Fairman presented the paper, "Delegated by Default? Analyzing Medical Technology transfer from Physicians to Nurses, The Case of Physical Diagnosis, 1960-1975."

Catbird Seat

Janna Dieckmann has received an appointment as an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina School of Nursing at Chapel Hill.

More Limelight

In September, Julie Fairman and Joan Lynaugh were presented with the 1998 Lavinia Dock Award at the 15th Annual Nursing History Research Conference of the American Association of the History of Nursing (AAHN) in Jackson, Mississippi. The award is in recognition of their book, Critical Care Nursing: a History (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998). The Dock Award is made annually by the AAHN to recognize outstanding research and writing produced by an experienced scholar in nursing history who submits, most often, a post-doctoral research manuscript, article or book.

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