Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Midway between the pharmacist and the physician: the work of the Henry Street settlement visiting nurses, 1893-1944
  • Practicing medicine without a license? Nurse anesthetists, 1900-1938
  • Providing care in the "hoot owl hollers": nursing, medicine, and the law in the frontier nursing service, 1925-1950
  • My treatment was castor oil and aspirin: field nursing among the Navajo in the four corners region, 1925-1955
  • Verbal orders and hospital nursing: expanding nurses' scope of practice in the mid-twentieth century
  • Nurse practitioners and the prescription pad, 1965-1980
  • Prescriptive authority for advanced practice nurses, 1980-2000.