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Allemang Spring Meeting/Book Launch

 In honor of Carol Helmstadter’s new co-authored book with Dr. Judith Godden, Nursing before Nightingale,1815-1899, please join us for tea at the Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing at the University of Toronto on,

 Friday May 4^rd, 2012

from 2:00-3:30 p.m.

Reports, articles, book reviews, research items, announcements, and letters to the editor are invited. Please send your news items to: Jaime Lapeyre.

Issues in PDF format:

Winter 2012 |PDF|

Fall 2011 |PDF|

Spring 2011 |PDF|

Winter 2011 |PDF|

Fall 2010 |PDF|

Summer 2010 |PDF|

Spring 2010  |PDF|

Winter 2010 |PDF|

Fall 2009 |PDF|

The Margaret Allemang Society for the History of Nursing

is pleased to announce an illustrated talk

by

Jaime Lapeyre

Setting the Stage: the Formation of an Influential Network of Nurse Leaders

Date: Saturday November 19, 2011

Time: 3 pm following AGM at 2 pm

Place; 205 Frederick Street, Toronto, 2nd floor Party Room

Directions: The closest subway station is King Street. 205 Frederick Street is opposite the St. James Campus of George Brown College (Adelaide Street).  Visitor parking is available.

Jaime Lapeyre RN, PhD candidate teaches at the Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto.  As background to her talk she notes that the immediate post World War 1 period witnessed one of the greatest public health crises of the 20th century – the influenza pandemic of 1918 – an event that highlighted the lack of well-trained health workers capable of providing public health relief. The need for public health nurses would set off an international debate among nurse leaders regarding the proper training of such nurses. Jaime’s talk explores the influence of the formation of a network of American nurse leaders on this debate.  She will illustrate her talk with photographs.

Non-members welcome

Refreshments will be served

Canadian Association for the History of Nursing

Association Canadienne pour l’histoire du Nursing

15-17 June 2012, Medicine Hat, Alberta

The 2012 Annual CAHN/ACHN Conference, to be held in Medicine Hat, Alberta on June 15-17, marks the 25th anniversary of our association.  Founded in 1987, CAHN/ACHN has an ongoing commitment to stimulate and promote historical scholarship of nursing and health.  We are pleased to invite you to this conference.

The conference theme is:  Places and People’s Health: Exploring Nursing in Diverse Contexts.  We welcome papers that explore diversity and contingency of nursing knowledge and practice. Aiming at a critical understanding of connections between place and practice, the conference seeks to examine the history of nursing and health care in diverse geographic, social, and political contexts, including rural and remote locations, specialty areas, and various communities.  How did communities engage with health politics or respond to professional claims? What tensions arose as health services had to be domains? How did local, regional, and global contexts of health care shape nursing? Abstracts addressing other questions are also welcome.  The conference will bring together scholars, professionals, and students from different fields and various areas of nursing and health care history. Longstanding members are especially invited to attend.

The Hannah Lecturer at the conference will be Carol Helmstadter, Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto.  She is an award winning nurse historian and expert on the history of 19th century nursing.  She has published widely on Florence Nightingale and nursing in Victorian Britain, including a recent chapter in Notes on Nightingale (2010). Her new book, Nursing before Nightingale, co-authored with Judith Godden, will be released in November 2011 by Ashgate.

Please summit your one page abstract (350 words max.) and one page CV for consideration by Dec. 1. 2011 to geertje.boschma@nursing.ubc.ca.  Submissions by email are strongly encouraged.  If submitting by mail. please send one original and 3 blind copies to Geertje Boschma, UBC School of Nursing, T201, 2211 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver V6T 2B5, Canada. Abstracts will be peer-reviewed. Notification of acceptance will be sent out in Feb. 2012. All presenters must be members of CAHN/ACHN.

For information on local arrangements you may contact Florence Melchior florence@mhc.ab.ca or visit our website at http://cahn-achn.ca/

The Allemang Society and Christie Gardens Residence

in celebration of Nurses’ Week will host an

AFTERNOON TEA, DISPLAYS, FILM

Date: Saturday May 14, 2011 at 2 pm

Place: Christie Gardens 602 Melita Crescent, Toronto

Directions:

Christie Street entrance – just north of Dupont, go down ramp to enter.

Melita Crescent entrance – one block north of Dupont to Lambert Lodge Avenue, turn left (west) to Melita Crescent. Take another left into front entrance.

By Subway/Bus

Take Bloor subway to St. George Station, transfer to Dupont bus. Get off at Christie Street, cross to west side and walk north.

R.S.V.P to Dorothy Wylie by May 8th. 416 367 5427 or wyliedm@aol.ca

Members and guests welcome

The Margaret M. Allemang Society for the History of Nursing

is pleased to announce the following illustrated talk

Polio and Religion in 1950s Canada

by Ginny Bodsworth

Date: Saturday October 16, 2010

Time: 3 pm (following the AGM at 2 pm)

Place: University Women’s Club, 162 St. George St. Toronto (corner of St. George and Huron close to the St. George subway.  Limited parking rear of building)

Ginny Bodsworth is a historian, teacher, and artist.  She recently obtained her Master’s degree in History from York University (working with Kathryn McPherson). The focus of her Master’s degree was the affect of religion on people’s attitudes and responses to polio in 1950s Canada.

All are welcome to this free lecture.     Refreshments provided.

The Margaret Allemang Society is pleased to announce an upcoming meeting on Saturday April 24th, 2010 at 3 pm

Speaker: Joyce MacQueen

Title: Nursing in a Northern Ontario one-industry town 1933-1974: Forty-two nurses tell their story

Place: to be announced

Nurse historian Joyce MacQueen, chair of the Sudbury Nursing History Group, will base her discussion on interviews with Sudbury nurses.  As lead researcher, she  spearheaded this five year oral history project now successfully concluded.  The project was supported by the Allemang Society and local Sudbury benefactors.

Admission is free. Non-members are welcome.

1. Feature article: Museum of Healthcare Kingston
2. Sudbury Oral History project
3. News Items
4. Book Review
5. Upcoming Meetings
6. Call for Abstracts
7. Obituaries

Read the full Margaret M. Allemang Society for the History of Nursing Newsletter July 2009 (pdf-460kb)

• Feature Article – They didn’t toe the line: Ottawa public health nurses, social justice and family planning, 1967-1972;
• BOOK REVIEW: Eunice Dyke:
• Health Care Pioneer; 125 Years of Public Health in Toronto;
• Florence Nightingale Anniversary Rose;
• HISTORY OF NURSING WRITING PRIZE;
• UPCOMING MEETINGS;
• OBITUARIES

Read the May 2009 Newsletter

• FEATURE ARTICLE – EUPHEMIA JANE TAYLOR—Promoter of Concept of “Total Patient Care” by Janice Cooke Feigenbaum RN PhD
• Canadian Nursing History Collection Online
• Digitization of Canadian War Museum Collections
• MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL – Remember to renew your membership for 2009. Your support is needed to carry out our mandate of information sharing to promote and preserve nursing history.
• NEWS ITEMS
• OBITUARIES
• New book – A Life of Caring – A Collection of Oral Histories from Newfoundland Nurses Practicing during the 1920s and 30s.
• UPCOMING CONFERENCES
• HISTORY OF NURSING WRITING PRIZE

Read the full Newsletter (pdf-345kb)