Books

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Wall, B. M. (2017). Through the Eyes of Nursing: Educational Reform at the University of Texas School of Nursing, 1890-1989.  Austin, Texas: Austin Books Consortium.

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Keeling, A., Hehman, M. & Kirchgessner, J. (2017) History of Professional Nursing in the United States: Toward a Culture of Health. New York: Springer Publishing Company.

Into Africa: A Transnational History of Catholic Medical Missions and Social Change by Barbara Mann Wall

Wall, B. M. (2015). Into Africa: A transitional history of Catholic medical missions and social change. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

Winner of the 2016 Lavinia Dock Award for Exemplary Historical Research and Writing, American Association for the History of Nursing.

Nurses and Disasters: Global, Historical Case Studies by Arlene Keeling and Barbara Mann Wall

Keeling, A.W. and Wall, B.M. (2015). Nurses and disasters: Global, historical case studies. New York: Springer Publishers.

Winner of the 2016 Mary M. Roberts Award for Outstanding Original Research and Writing in an Edited Book of Nursing History, American Association for the History of Nursing.

Nursing Rural America: Perspectives from the early 20th Century. Edited by John C. Kirchgessner and Arlene W. Keeling.

Kirchgessner, J.C & Keeling, A. (2015).  Nursing Rural America: Perspectives from the Early 20th Century, 1900-1950. New York: Springer Publishing Company.

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Tobbell, D. (2015). Health Informatics at Minnesota: The First Fifty Years. Minneapolis: Tasora Books.

The Nurses of Mayo Clinic: Caring Healers, by Arlene Keeling

Keeling, A. (2014). The nurses of Mayo Clinic: Caring healers. Rochester, MN: Mayo Clinic.

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Tobbell, D. (2012). Pills, Power, and Policy: The Struggle for Drug Reform in Cold War America and its Consequences. Oakland, California: University of California Press/Milbank Series on Health and the Public.

American Catholic Hospitals: A Century of Changing Markets and Missions by Barbara Mann Wall

Wall, B. M. (2011). American Catholic hospitals: A century of changing markets and missions. New Jersey: Rutgers University Press.

Nurses on the Front Lines: When Disasters Strike, 1878-2010, by Barbara Mann Wall and Arlene Keeling

Wall, B. M., Keeling, A. W. (2010). Nurses on the front lines: When disasters strike, 1878-2010. New York: Springer Publishing Company.

Winner of the 2012 Mary M. Roberts Award for Outstanding Original Research and Writing in an Edited Book of Nursing History, American Association for the History of Nursing.

The Voice of Professional Nursing Education: A 40-Year History of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, Keeling, A., Brodie, B., Kirchgessner, J.

Keeling, A., Brodie, B., & Kirchgessner, J. (2010). The Voice of Professional Nursing Education: A 40-Year History of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing. Washington, DC: American Association of Colleges of Nursing.

Nursing and the Privilege of Prescription, 1893-2000, by Arlene Keeling

Keeling, A. (2007). Nursing and the Privilege of Prescription, 1893-2000. Ohio State University Press.

Winner of the 2007 Lavinia L. Dock Book Award for Exemplary Historical Research and Writing, American Association for the History of Nursing.

Unlikely Entrepreneurs: Catholic Sisters and the Hospital Marketplace, 1865-1925, by Barbra Mann Wall

Wall, B. M. (2005). Unlikely Entrepreneurs: Catholic Sisters and the Hospital Marketplace, 1865-1925. Columbus: Ohio State University Press.

Winner of the 2006 Lavinia Dock Award for Exemplary Historical Research and Writing, American Association for the History of Nursing.

Mr. Jefferson's Nurses: The History of the University of Virginia School of Nursing 1901-2001, by Barbara Brodie

Brodie, B. (2000). Mr. Jefferson’s Nurses: The History of the University of Virginia School of Nursing 1901-2001. Charlottesville, Virginia, University of Virginia School of Nursing Meridan Printing Press.

Selected Book Sections

Brodie, B. (2015). Hurting and Caring: Nursing Burned Children in the Chicago School Fire Disaster, 1958. In G. Fealy, C. Hallett, and S. Malchau Dietz (Eds.), History of Nursing Practice (pp. 69-81). Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Gibson, M.E., & Thatcher, E. (2015). Community as Client: Assessment and Analysis. In M. Stanhope & J. Lancaster (Eds.), Public Health Nursing (9th ed.) (pp. 396-421). St. Louis, MO: Elsevier Mosby.

 (2014). School nursing in Virginia: Hookworm, Tooth Decay and Tonsillectomies. In J. Kirchgessner & A. Keeling (Eds.), Nursing Rural America: Perspectives from the Early 20th Century (pp. 39-52). New York, NY: Springer Publishing Company.

 (2009). Virginia Laurie. In S. Burch (Ed.), Encyclopedia of American Disability History. New York: Facts on File Publishing.

Keeling, A., Lusk, B., & Kulbok, P. (2016). Culturally Sensitive Primary Health Care Interventions: Three Exemplars. In S. Lewenson, S.M. Truglio-Londrigan, and A. Sonenberg, Caring for Populations: Practicing Primary Health Care in Nursing (pp. 161-179). Burlington, MA: Jones and Bartlett.

Keeling, A. Kirchgessner, J. &  (2015). Nurses in Schools, Coal Towns, and Migrant Camps: Bringing Health Care to Rural America, 1900-1950. In Histories of Nursing Practice, Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press.

 (2004). Professional Nursing Comes of Age: 1859-1999. In K. K. Chitty (Ed.), Professional Nursing: Concepts and Challenges (pp. 1-25). WB Saunders Co.

Kirchgessner, J., Keeling, A., & Gibson, M. (2015). Nurses in Schools, Coal Towns, and Migrant Camps: Bringing Health Care to Rural America, 1900-1950. In G. M. Fealy, C. E. Hallet, & S. M. Deitz, Histories of Nursing Practice. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press.

Kirchgessner, J. (2012). The Pediatric Patient.  In M.E. Estes (Ed.) Health Assessment and Physical Examination, (5th ed.). Clifton Park, NY: Delmar.

Tobbell, D. (2012). 'Eroding the Physician's Control Over Therapy': The Post-War Politics of the Prescription. In E. Watkins and J. Greene (Eds.), Prescribed: Writing, Filling, Using and Abusing the Prescription in Modern America (pp. 66-90). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

(2012). Pharmaceutical Politics and Regulatory Reform in Post-War America. In J. Zelizer and K. Philips-Fein (Eds.), What's Good for Business: Business and Politics Since World War II (pp. 123-139). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

(2010). Charitable Innovations: The Political Economy of Thalassemia Research and Drug Development in the United States, 1960-2000. In J. Slinn and V. Quirke (Eds.), Perspectives on Twentieth Century Pharmaceuticals (pp. 303-337). Oxford: Peter Lang AG.

Wall, B.M. (2015). The Changing Face of Medical Missions in Nigeria, 1937-1970. In S. Hawkins & H. Sweet (Eds.), Colonial Caring: A History of Colonial and Post-Colonial Nursing (pp. 188-207). Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press.

 (2013). Beyond the Imperial Narrative: Catholic Missionary Nursing, Medicine, and Knowledge Translation in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1945-1980. In E. Fleischmann, et al (Eds.), Transnational and Historical Perspectives on Global Health, Welfare and Humanitarianism (pp. 90-109). Norway: Portal Forlag Publishers.

 (2010). Body, Soul, and Service: Catholic Sister-Nurses in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Hospitals. In Nursing History: Interventions Through Time, (pp. 61-73). New York: Springer Publishing Company.

Selected Journal Articles

Cockerham, A. & Wall, B.M. (2010). Finance and Faith at the Catholic Maternity Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1944-1969. Nursing History Review, 18(1), 151-166.

Connolly, C., & Gibson, M. E. (2011). The 'White Plague' and Color: Children, Race, and Tuberculosis in Virginia 1900-1935. Journal of Pediatric Nursing, 26, 230-238.

DeGuzman, P.B., &  (2012). Addressing Disparities in Access to Care: Lessons from the Kercheval Street Clinic in the 1960s. Policy, Politics, & Nursing Practice, 12(4), 199-207. 

Gibson, M. E. (2005). Getting Back to Basics: The Curious History of Breastfeeding in the United States. American Journal of Nursing, 105(10), 72C-D.

Marshall, E.S., & Wall, B.M. (1999). Religion, Gender, and Autonomy: A Comparison of Two Religious Women's Groups in Nursing and Hospitals in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries. Advances in Nursing Science, 22, 1-22.
Winner of the Lavinia Dock Award, American Association for the History of Nursing.

Schminkey, D. L., & Keeling, A. W. (2015). Frontier Nurse-Midwives and Antepartum Emergencies, 1925-1939. Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health, 60(1), 48-55.

Tobbell, D.A. (2018). Nursing’s Boundary Work: Theory Development and the Making of Nursing Science, 1950-1980. Nursing Research, 67(2), 63-73.

(2016). Teaching Medical History with Primary Sources: Introduction. Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 90, 124-127.

(2016). Teaching with Oral Histories. Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 90, 128-135.

(2016). Clinical Pharmacy: An Example of Interprofessional Education in the Late 1960s and 1970s. Nursing History Review, 24, 98-102.

(2014). 'Coming to Grips with the Nursing Question’: The Politics of Nursing Education Reform in 1960s’ America. Nursing History Review, 22, 37-60.

(2013). Plow, Town, and Gown: The Politics of Family Practice in 1960s’ America. Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 87(4), 648-680.

(2011). Bioequivalence: The Regulatory Career of a Pharmaceutical Concept. Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 85(1), 93-131 (with Daniel P. Carpenter).

(2009). Who’s Winning the Human Race? Cold War as Pharmaceutical Political Strategy. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 64(4), 429-473.

(2009). Pharmaceutical Networks: The Political Economy of Drug Development in the United States, 1945-1980. Enterprise and Society, 10(4), 675-686.

(2008). Allied Against Reform: Pharmaceutical Industry-Academic Physician Relations in the United States, 1945-1970. Bulletin of the History of the Medicine, 82(4), 878-912.

Wall, B.M. (2009). Catholic Sister Nurses in Selma, Alabama, 1940-1972. Advances in Nursing Science, 32(1), 91-102.
Winner of the 2009 Mary Adelaide Nutting Award for Exemplary Historical Research and Writing, American Association for the History of Nursing.