Lavinia L. Dock Award for Exemplary Historical Research and Writing
Julie Fairman, PhD, FAAN, RN, Professor of Nursing, and Director of the Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing
The American Association for the History of Nursing awarded its distinguished Lavinia L. Dock Award for Exemplary Historical Research and Writing to Dr. Julie Fairman for her Making room in the clinic: Nurse practitioners and the evolution of modern health care, published by Rutgers University Press. In it, Dr Fairman investigates the significant ways in which the evolution of nursing shaped the delivery of modern medical services. In so doing Making room in the clinic documents the historical roots of the very critical partnership of nurses and physicians in today’s health care system.