On All Frontiers: Four Centuries of Canadian Nursing

Contributors

Contributors Genevieve Allard holds an MA (History) from Universite Laval and currently works at Library and Archives Canada. She was, for a time, one of the archivists responsible for governmental military records. She is now managing projects to make cultural resources available on the Internet. Her research interests include military and medical history, with a specialized focus on military medicine, military nursing, and mental illness in the First World War. Her publications include "Des anges blanc sur le front: L'experience de guerre des infirmieres militaires Canadiennes pendant la Premiere Guerre mondiale" in Bulletin d'histoire politique (2000). Christina Bates is the curator for Ontario history at the Canadian Museum of Civilization and is the author of Out of Old Ontario Kitchens. Specializing in social history and women's history, she has published in journals such as Material History Review, Dress (Costume Society of America) and Muse (Canadian Museums Association), and has contributed to books such as Framing Our Past: Canadian Women's History in the Twentieth Century and Fashion: A Canadian Perspective. She is chair of the Canadian Nursing History Collection Committee, and curator of the "A Caring Profession" exhibition on the history of Canadian nursing. Cecilia Benoit completed her PhD at the University of Toronto and is currently a professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Victoria. She has published journal articles and book chapters on mothering in Canada and a number of other high-income countries, comparative health and welfare systems, midwives' caring work in cross-national perspective, and Aboriginal midwifery in BC and other areas of Canada. She is author of Midwives in Passage (1991) and Women, Work and Social Rights (2000), and co-editor of Birth By Design (2001) and Reconceiving Midwifery (2004). Cecilia is a core partner of one of the five national Centres of Women's Health, NNEWH (located at York University). Dena Carroll holds BA Sociology and MBA degrees from the University of Victoria. She has been involved with Aboriginal women's health, urban Aboriginal health centres, and health policy issues in British Columbia for over a decade. Dena is a member of the Chippewa of Nawash Band in Cape Croker, Ontario, and has published work relating to Aboriginal midwifery in BC and other areas of Canada, health care regionalization, and maternal health care. Dena is a community partner with one of the five national Centres of Women's Health, NNEWH (located at York University) and also serves on NNEWH's Research, Network and Training Committee. Dianne Dodd (PhD Carleton) is an historian for Parks Canada, National Historic Sites and Coordinator of the Women's History Initiative. She has published in the areas of contraception, domestic technology, public health and nursing, and is coeditor , with Deborah Gorham, of Caring and Curing: Historical Perspectives on Women and Healing in Canada. Jayne Elliott, a former nurse, recently received a PhD in the Department of History at Queen's University. Her interest in the history of rural medicine and nursing in Canada provides the focus for her dissertation and the article "Blurring the Boundaries of Space: Shaping Nursing Lives at the Red Cross Outposts in Ontario, 1922-1945" (Canadian Bulletin ofMedical History, 2004). Barbara Keddy, PhD, RN, is a co-founder of the Canadian Association for the History of Nursing and Professor of Nursing, Women's Studies, and Sociology at Dalhousie University. Dr Keddy teaches qualitative research methodologies, philosophical and methodological issues in knowledge and research, and the sociology of women and aging. Her current research interests include women and fibromyalgia, mid-life black women's health, and women and menopause. Lynn Kirkwood, BN, PhD, was an associate professor in the Faculty of Nursing at Queen's University from 1974 to 2000 and is now retired. Her doctoral dissertation was an historical comparison of the development of two university schools of nursing and she has published in nursing and women's history journals as well as written two monographs related to nursing education. Diana Mansell, RN, PhD, University of Calgary, currently has an adjunct appointment with the Faculty of Nursing, University of Calgary. She has been active in nursing for more than 35 years and is a past president of the Canadian Association for the History of Nursing. She is author of Forging the Future: A History of Nursing in Canada (2003). Marion McKay holds a bachelor and a master's degree in Nursing from the University of Manitoba, and an MA (History) from the University of Manitoba/University of Winnipeg. She...