Table of Contents

"GUEST EDITORS' NOTES
Requiem for AJN's Place in the Profession, Ellen D. Baer
Nursing History: Blurring Disciplinary Boundaries, Barbra Mann Wall

MONICA BALY LECTURE
Rewriting Nursing History - Again?, Celia Davies

ARTICLES
Florence Nightingale's Nursing Practice, Joyce Schroeder MacQueen
The Nursing Radicalism of the Honourable Albinia Brodrick, 1861-1955, Ann Wickham
""The Ultimate Destination of All Nursing"": The Development of District Nursing in England, 1880-1925, Carrie Howse
""Much Instruction Needed Here"": The Work of Nurses in Rural Wisconsin During the Depression, Rima D. Apple
Reweaving a Tapestry of Care: Religion, Nursing, and the Meaning of Hospice, 1945-1978, Joy Buck

RESEARCH REPORTS
The Rise and Demise of the Colonial Nursing Service: British Nurses in the Colonies 1896-1966, Anne Marie Rafferty and Diana Solano

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Florence Nightingale's Opposition to State Registration of Nurses, Carol Helmstadter
Commentary, Linda Holbrook Freeman

BOOK REVIEWS
Nightingales: The Extraordinary Upbringing and Curious Life of Miss Florence Nightingale by Gillian Gill
Reviewer: Cynthia Connolly
Bermerkungen zur Krankenpflege (Notes on Nursing) by Florence Nightingale, with commentary by Christoph Schweikardt and Susanne Schulze-Jaschok
Reviewer: Joyce Schroeder MacQueen
Turn Backward, O Time: The Civil War Diary of Amanda Shelton by Kathleen S. Hanson
Reviewer: Teresa M. O'Neill
Unlikely Entrepreneurs: Catholic Sisters and the Hospital Marketplace, 1865-1925 by Barbra Mann Wall
Reviewer: Patricia D'Antonio
When Matron Ruled by Peter Ardern
Reviewer: Carol Helmstadter
Latter-day Saint Nurses at War: A Story of Caring and Sacrifice by Patricia Rushton, Lynn Clark-Callister, and Maile K. Wilson
Reviewer: Jennifer M. Casavant
Alcoholism in America: From Reconstruction to Prohibition by Sarah W. Tracy
Reviewer: Kara Dixon Vuic
Unnatural Selections: Eugenics in American Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance by Daylanne K. English
Reviewer: Mollie K. Hanlon
Motherhood in Bondage by Margaret Sanger; foreword by Margaret Marsh
Reviewer: Lisa Stern Slifka
Compassion and Competence: Nursing in Mandatory Palestine, 1918-1948 by Nira Bartal
Reviewer: Ilana Kadmon
Care to Remember: Nursing and Midwifery in Ireland edited by Gerard M. Fealy
Reviewer: Patricia D'Antonio
On All Frontiers: Four Centuries of Canadian Nursing edited by Christina Bates, Dianne Dodd, and Nicole Rousseau
Reviewer: Sonya Grypma
""Must We All Die?""Alaska's Enduring Struggle with Tuberculosis by Robert Fortuine
Reviewer: Marjorie L. Porter
Pain and Profits: The History of the Headache and its Remedies in America by Jan R. McTavish
Reviewer: Jean C. Whelan
Choice and Coercion: Birth Control, Sterilization, and Abortion in Public Health and Welfare by Johanna Schoen
Reviewer: Rebekah Fox
Dying to be Beautiful: The Fight for Safe Cosmetics by Gwen Kay
Reviewer: Lynne M. Dunphy
One Nation Uninsured: Why the U.S. Has No National Health Insurance by Jill Quadagno
Reviewer: Jonathan Gilbride
Health Security for All: Dreams of Universal Health Care in America by Alan Derickson
Reviewer: Joy Buck
Nursing Against the Odds: How Health Care Cost Cutting, Media Stereotypes, and Medical Hubris Undermine Nurses and Patient Care by Suzanne Gordon
Reviewer: Marcella Rutherford
Autism and the Myth of the Person Alone by Douglas Biklen with Richard Attfield, Larry Bissonnette, Lucy Blackman, Jamie Burke, Alberto Frugone, Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay, and Sue Rubin
Reviewer: Patricia A. White
First Do No Harm: Power, Oppression and Violence in Healthcare edited by Nancy L. Diekelmann
Reviewer: Vern L. Bullough

NEW DISSERTATIONS"