Unheralded nurses male care givers in the nineteenth-century South

Nursing History Review

Volumn 5, Issue , 1997, Pages 131-148

  Sabin, Linda E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT MONROE   (United States)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EPIDEMIC; HISTORY; HUMAN; MALE; MALE NURSE; NURSING; UNITED STATES; YELLOW FEVER;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MALE; NURSES, MALE; SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES; YELLOW FEVER;

EID: 0030636763     PISSN: 10628061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1891/1062-8061.5.1.131     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. The primary research for this article is drawn from my two studies: "Nursing and Health Care in Jacksonville, Florida, 1900-1930" (master's thesis, University of Florida, 1988);
2. and "From the Home to the Community: Nursing in Mississippi, 1870-1940" (PhD diss., University of Mississippi, 1994).
3. St. Luke's Hospital in Jacksonville, Florida, established the first school in Florida in 1885, but regular classes were not admitted until the late 18905. The first training school in Mississippi opened in 1898 at the Charity Hospital in Natchez. Although a few urban centers in the South had established schools of nursing before 1900, the majority of communities in the study area did not develop trained nursing programs until after 1900.
4. Edward Ayers, The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992), vii-xi;
5. John Boles and Evelyn Nolen, eds., Interpreting Southern History (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987), vi-ix;
6. Vann Woodward, The future of the Past (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989), viii-xii, 55-72;
7. William J. Cooper and Thomas Terrill, The American South: A History (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1991), xv-xvi.
8. Todd L. Savitt, "Black Health on the Plantation: Masters, Slaves and Physicians," in Science and Medicine in the Old South, ed. Ronald L. Numbers and Todd L. Savitt (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989), 332;
9. Edward Akin, Mississippi: An Illustrated History (Northridge, Calif.: Mississippi Historical Society, 1987), 22, 24, 50;
10. William Scarborough, "Heartland of the Cotton Kingdom in History of Mississippi, ed. Richard A. McLemore (Jackson: University and College Press of Mississippi, 1976), i : 331-32;
11. Charlton W. Tebeau, A History of Florida (Coral Gables, Fla.: University of Miami Press, 1971), 181.
12. Francis Butler Simkins, The Everlasting South (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1963), 37;
13. Sam Hill, Religion in the Solid South (Nashville: Abingdon, 1972), 39-40;
14. Jean Friedman, The Enclosed Garden: Women and Community in the Evangelical South, 1830 -1900 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985), 6;
15. Donald Mathews, Religion in the Old South (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977), 75-80;
16. Charles Reagan Wilson, Baptized in the Blood: Tlje Religion of the Lost Cause, 1865 -1920 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1980), 3, 7, n; Akin, 51; Scarborough, 350;
17. Lucy Robertson Bridgforth, "Medicine in Antebellum Mississippi," Journal of Mississippi History (hereafter cited as JMH) 56 (May 1984): 104.