"American Style Health Care: Helter Skelter Par Excellence"

"Myths and Realities of Apprenticeship in Nursing: Paternalism in Practice"

"Nursing Roots: Impact on Role Change"

"Professionalism and the Law"

"Women and the Political Process: Their Social Influence Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow"

...nurses should be incensed at the every thought of being unknowingly forced to cooperate in the provision of care that is not care at all, but is instead public health menace number one, to put it mildly.  As professional persons, we must ask ourselves how guilty we are as accomplices and as supportive figures participating in certain ugly acts taking place in the health care system...

-from paper presented at the annual convention of the Connecticut Nurses' Association, Windsor Locks, Connecticut, October 7, 1976.  This speech was published in Supervisor Nurse, vol. 8, February 1977, and in Jo Ann Ashley: Selected Readings, edited by Karen Wolf, 1997.