Linda Richards and nursing in Japan, 1885-1890

Nursing History Review

Volumn 4, Issue , 1996, Pages 99-128

  Doona, Mary Ellen ^a  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLERGY; HISTORY; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; JAPAN; UNITED STATES;

HISTORY OF MEDICINE, 19TH CENT.; HISTORY OF NURSING; HUMAN; JAPAN; MISSIONS AND MISSIONARIES; PORTRAITS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0030060908     PISSN: 10628061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1891/1062-8061.4.1.99     Document Type: Article

References (8)

1. George Tuttle to ABCFM, 24 August 1885. In Linda Richards, Candidates R-V, American Board of Commissioners of Foreign Missions-Japan Mission, Harvard College Houghton Library (hereafter cited as ABCFM-JM). Used by permission of the Houghton Library and United Church Board for World Ministries (successor to ABCFM).
2. George Beard, "Neurasthenia or Nervous Exhaustion," Boston Medical and Surgical Journal (1869): 217-21.
3. Jean Stiousc, Alice James: A Biography (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1980), xiv.
4. The enforced rest treatment was created by neurologist/novelist, S. Weir Mitchell. See the critique of the treatment in Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Ttie Yellow Wallpaper (New York: Feminist Press, 1973).
5. Linda Richards, 21 August 1885, Candidates R-V, ABCFM-JM.
6. Richards, Candidates R-V, ABCFM-JM.
7. Barbara Welter, "She Hath Done What She Could: Protestant Women's Missionary Careers in Nineteenth-Century America," in Women in Ametican Religious History, ed. Janet Wilson James (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1980), 111-25;
8. and Mrs. Potter Palmer, "President of the Woman's Branch of the World Congress Auxiliary of the Women's Department of the World Columbian Exposition," in Christian Practicality (New York: Baker and Taylor, 1894), 10-11.