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Papers by Judith Leavitt
Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1982
Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1985
American Anthropologist, 2010
The American Historical Review, 1989
List of tables and figures Acknowledgments Introduction: the dilemma of caring Part I. The Nurse ... more List of tables and figures Acknowledgments Introduction: the dilemma of caring Part I. The Nurse and the Hospital Before Training: 1. 'Professed' nursing: from duty to trade 2. Chaos and order in hospital nursing Part II. The Trained Nurse: An Apprentice to Duty: 3. Character as skill: the ideology of discipline 4. Training as work: the pupil nurse as hospital machine 5. 'Strangers to Boston': who becomes a nurse 6. Nursing as work: divisions in the occupation Part III. The 'Re-Forming' of Nursing: 7. Professionalization and its discontents 8. Nursing efficiency as the link between service and science 9. The limits of 'collaborative relationships' 10. Great transformation, small change Conclusion Appendix Notes Note on sources Select bibliography of primary sources Index.
Joseph Bolivar DeLee was an obstetrician in the US between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries... more Joseph Bolivar DeLee was an obstetrician in the US between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries who advocated for the specialized teaching of medical students in the field of obstetrics to address problems occurring during pregnancy [5]. He claimed obstetricians maintained a wider skillset than midwives, and founded the Chicago Lying-In Hospital to provide affordable obstetric care to women in Chicago, Illinois. According to Carolyn Herbst Lewis, critics of DeLee’s practices often cite his 1920 article, “The Prophylactic Forceps Operation,” [6] as catalyzing a cultural shift toward overly clinical birthing practices. However, rather than solely advocating for its use, he had cautioned against the extreme use of forceps during delivery, and emphasized that obstetricians needed to know the information in the case it could ever save a woman’s life. Though some of DeLee’s philosophies were controversial, such as his disapproval of midwifery, he provided the emerging specialization of ...
The Women's Review of Books, 1984
The American Historical Review, 1982
... The germ of laziness: Rockefeller philanthropy and public health in the New South. Post a Com... more ... The germ of laziness: Rockefeller philanthropy and public health in the New South. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: Author: Ettling, John (b. 1944, d. ----. PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press (Cambridge, Mass.). SERIES TITLE: YEAR: 1981. ...
The American Historical Review, 2000
The American Historical Review, 1998
The American Historical Review, 1977
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American Journal of Public Health
In a very short time, the health commissioner had mobilized an army of volunteers, coordinated th... more In a very short time, the health commissioner had mobilized an army of volunteers, coordinated the efforts of community organizations, plastered the city with educational literature, isolated the sick, and assuaged the doubts of businesspeople and politicians who feared personal loss from the emergency regulations 1 Milwaukee's actions to quell influenza were similar to or exactly the same as methods tried by other cities 3 Along with liberty bond parades (which in Philadelphia demonstrably spread influenza),4,5 masks carried patriotic value and gave the public a way to exhibit and celebrate their loyalty Growing in opposition to corrupt and patronage-laden politics, a coalition of ethnic, middle-class, and labor interests joined together under a pragmatic Socialist banner to institute trustworthy, responsive government to address urban problems 8 Comprehensive and efficient health policies to improve public services, such as infant welfare programs and community clinics, drawing on the advice of experts, aimed to build a healthier city By 1918, when the Socialists retained the mayoralty but no longer controlled the common council, progressive policies and programs that developed private-public cooperation had achieved citywide trust in local government's attempts to ameliorate urban problems 9 Socialist mayor Daniel Hoan and wide-ranging community groups actively supported Ruhland in his work [ ]understanding the responses to the COVID-19 epidemic is incomplete without analysis of medical inequities based on race and class and the prominence of the Black Lives Matter movement 12,13 Unlike during the 1918 epidemic, African American health disparities and deaths are now a prominent and publicized feature 14 Because the health system does not serve all populations equally, many Americans feel they cannot trust medical advice about treatment and vaccinations
Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1990
Family background; Education; Nursing; University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical School; Obstetrics... more Family background; Education; Nursing; University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical School; Obstetrics and gynecology; PhD in genetics; Medical practice; Department chair at Northwestern University and the University of New Mexico School of Medicine; National Center of Excellence in Women's Health; Women's movement.
Nursing history review : official journal of the American Association for the History of Nursing, 1998
Today when most American women deliver their babies in the hospital, ebey can predict and even he... more Today when most American women deliver their babies in the hospital, ebey can predict and even help to shape the patterns of care they receive from their nurses and physicians. But many of rhe first generation ofwomen to give birrh in che hospital-fxom the 1930s into the 1 9 5 0 A d not find that the hospital met their needs and expectations. Some complained bitterly that they did not feel welcome in this new institutional setting, blaming both nurses and physicians for their feelings of alienation. One woman wrote that she felt *alone among strangersm in the hospital; another remembered that "No one kind reassuring word was spoken by nurse or d o a ~ r . " ~ Birching women sometimes heaped their harshest judgments on their nurses. Ann Rivington's story of her 1933 confinement in a city hospital pointedly focused the brunt of her ire upon her nurses:
Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1982
Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1985
American Anthropologist, 2010
The American Historical Review, 1989
List of tables and figures Acknowledgments Introduction: the dilemma of caring Part I. The Nurse ... more List of tables and figures Acknowledgments Introduction: the dilemma of caring Part I. The Nurse and the Hospital Before Training: 1. 'Professed' nursing: from duty to trade 2. Chaos and order in hospital nursing Part II. The Trained Nurse: An Apprentice to Duty: 3. Character as skill: the ideology of discipline 4. Training as work: the pupil nurse as hospital machine 5. 'Strangers to Boston': who becomes a nurse 6. Nursing as work: divisions in the occupation Part III. The 'Re-Forming' of Nursing: 7. Professionalization and its discontents 8. Nursing efficiency as the link between service and science 9. The limits of 'collaborative relationships' 10. Great transformation, small change Conclusion Appendix Notes Note on sources Select bibliography of primary sources Index.
Joseph Bolivar DeLee was an obstetrician in the US between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries... more Joseph Bolivar DeLee was an obstetrician in the US between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries who advocated for the specialized teaching of medical students in the field of obstetrics to address problems occurring during pregnancy [5]. He claimed obstetricians maintained a wider skillset than midwives, and founded the Chicago Lying-In Hospital to provide affordable obstetric care to women in Chicago, Illinois. According to Carolyn Herbst Lewis, critics of DeLee’s practices often cite his 1920 article, “The Prophylactic Forceps Operation,” [6] as catalyzing a cultural shift toward overly clinical birthing practices. However, rather than solely advocating for its use, he had cautioned against the extreme use of forceps during delivery, and emphasized that obstetricians needed to know the information in the case it could ever save a woman’s life. Though some of DeLee’s philosophies were controversial, such as his disapproval of midwifery, he provided the emerging specialization of ...
The Women's Review of Books, 1984
The American Historical Review, 1982
... The germ of laziness: Rockefeller philanthropy and public health in the New South. Post a Com... more ... The germ of laziness: Rockefeller philanthropy and public health in the New South. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: Author: Ettling, John (b. 1944, d. ----. PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press (Cambridge, Mass.). SERIES TITLE: YEAR: 1981. ...
The American Historical Review, 2000
The American Historical Review, 1998
The American Historical Review, 1977
An academic directory and search engine.
American Journal of Public Health
In a very short time, the health commissioner had mobilized an army of volunteers, coordinated th... more In a very short time, the health commissioner had mobilized an army of volunteers, coordinated the efforts of community organizations, plastered the city with educational literature, isolated the sick, and assuaged the doubts of businesspeople and politicians who feared personal loss from the emergency regulations 1 Milwaukee's actions to quell influenza were similar to or exactly the same as methods tried by other cities 3 Along with liberty bond parades (which in Philadelphia demonstrably spread influenza),4,5 masks carried patriotic value and gave the public a way to exhibit and celebrate their loyalty Growing in opposition to corrupt and patronage-laden politics, a coalition of ethnic, middle-class, and labor interests joined together under a pragmatic Socialist banner to institute trustworthy, responsive government to address urban problems 8 Comprehensive and efficient health policies to improve public services, such as infant welfare programs and community clinics, drawing on the advice of experts, aimed to build a healthier city By 1918, when the Socialists retained the mayoralty but no longer controlled the common council, progressive policies and programs that developed private-public cooperation had achieved citywide trust in local government's attempts to ameliorate urban problems 9 Socialist mayor Daniel Hoan and wide-ranging community groups actively supported Ruhland in his work [ ]understanding the responses to the COVID-19 epidemic is incomplete without analysis of medical inequities based on race and class and the prominence of the Black Lives Matter movement 12,13 Unlike during the 1918 epidemic, African American health disparities and deaths are now a prominent and publicized feature 14 Because the health system does not serve all populations equally, many Americans feel they cannot trust medical advice about treatment and vaccinations
Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1990
Family background; Education; Nursing; University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical School; Obstetrics... more Family background; Education; Nursing; University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical School; Obstetrics and gynecology; PhD in genetics; Medical practice; Department chair at Northwestern University and the University of New Mexico School of Medicine; National Center of Excellence in Women's Health; Women's movement.
Nursing history review : official journal of the American Association for the History of Nursing, 1998
Today when most American women deliver their babies in the hospital, ebey can predict and even he... more Today when most American women deliver their babies in the hospital, ebey can predict and even help to shape the patterns of care they receive from their nurses and physicians. But many of rhe first generation ofwomen to give birrh in che hospital-fxom the 1930s into the 1 9 5 0 A d not find that the hospital met their needs and expectations. Some complained bitterly that they did not feel welcome in this new institutional setting, blaming both nurses and physicians for their feelings of alienation. One woman wrote that she felt *alone among strangersm in the hospital; another remembered that "No one kind reassuring word was spoken by nurse or d o a ~ r . " ~ Birching women sometimes heaped their harshest judgments on their nurses. Ann Rivington's story of her 1933 confinement in a city hospital pointedly focused the brunt of her ire upon her nurses: