Nursing History Review, an annual peer-reviewed publication of the American Association for the History of Nursing, is a showcase for the most significant current research on nursing history. Regular sections include scholarly articles, over a dozen book reviews of the best publications on nursing and health care history that have appeared in the past year, and a section abstracting new doctoral dissertations on nursing history. Historians, researchers, and individuals fascinated with the rich field of nursing will find this an important resource.

Included in Volume 28…



“Service is the Rent We Pay”: The Complexity of Nurses’ Claims to Their Place in Social Justice Movements


The American Red Cross “Mercy Ship” in the First World War: A Pivotal Experiment in Nursing-Centered Clinical Humanitarianism


The Nurses No-One Remembers: Looking for Spanish Nurses in Accounts of the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939)


The Norwegian Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (NORMASH) in the Korean War (1951–1954): Military Hospital or Humanitarian “Sanctuary?”


Matriarchs of the Operating Room: Nurses, Neurosurgery, and Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1920–1940