Dominique Avril Klakoski, PhD
(Dominique Tobbell)
Biography
Dominique Tobbell, PhD, is Centennial Distinguished Professor of Nursing and director of the Eleanor Crowder Bjoring Center for Nursing History of Inquiry at the University of Virginia.
Dr. Tobbell’s research examines the complex political, economic, and social relationships that developed among academic institutions, governments, and the health care industry in the decades after World War II and assesses the implications of those relationships for the current health care system.
Dr. Tobbell’s latest book, Dr. Nurse: Science, Politics, and the Transformation of American Nursing (University of Chicago Press, 2022), analyzes the knowledge claims, strategies, and politics involved in the work of American nurses as they negotiated new roles and nursing’s place within universities and academic health centers in the decades after World War II. Dr. Nurse was awarded the 2023 Lavinia L. Dock Award by the American Association of the History of Nursing. Dr. Tobbell is also the author of Pills, Power, and Policy: The Struggle for Drug Reform in Cold War America and its Consequences (University of California Press, 2012), Health Informatics at Minnesota: The First Fifty Years (Minneapolis: Tasora Books, 2015), and co-editor of Troubling Access: Global Health and Pharmacology (Lausanne: Frontiers Media SA, 2021).
Dr. Tobbell has been the recipient of several fellowships, grants, and awards. She has taught a variety of courses on the history of 20th-century American healthcare, with an emphasis on the ways that race, gender, class, sexuality, and disability determine Americans’ experiences with and access to healthcare.
Dr. Tobbell earned an undergraduate degree in biochemistry from the University of Manchester, and both a Master of Art and a PhD in the history and sociology of science from the University of Pennsylvania.
Publications
Advance Online Publications
Tobbell, D. (2024). The role of communities in nurse-led clinics, 1965-2000: lessons from history. Politics, Policy, & Nursing Practice. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1177/15271544241289416
Journal Articles
Tobbell, D. (2024). School Nurses and the Promotion of Inclusive Menstrual Health. American Journal of Public Health, 114(9), 849-851. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2024.307776
Tobbell, D.A. & D’Antonio, P. (2024). The History of Racism in Nursing: A review of existing scholarship.. Nursing History Review, 32, 10-62.
Tobbell, D.A. (2023). The making of nursing science: gender, race, and the politics of knowledge, 1950-1990. Nursing History Review, 31, 9-30.
Tobbell, D. A. (2023). The transformation of American nursing. Issues in Science and Technology, 39(3), 74-80.
Tobbell, D. (2022). Book review: Nursing the nation: Building the nurse labor force by Jean C. Whelan. Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 96(3), 461-463. https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2022.0038
Tobbell, D. (2022). Comment: Toward a history of health care: Repositioning the histories of nursing and medicine. Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 96(3), 321-329. https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2022.0030
Tobbell, D. (2022). A role for history in inclusive nursing education. Journal of Nursing Education, 61(8), 469-475. https://doi.org/10.3928/01484834-20220602-08
D'Antonio, P., Tobbell, D., Milbrath, G. (2022). Including a historical lens in the National Institute for Nursing Research Strategic Plan. Research in Nursing & Health, 45(1), 6-7. https://doi.org/10.1002/nur.22206
Tobbell, D. A. (2021). Book review of Talking therapy: Knowledge and power in American psychiatric nursing by Kylie M. Smith. Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 95(2), 264-265. https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2021.0025
Craddock, S. L., & Tobbell, D. (2021). Global health and pharmacology. Frontiers in Sociology, 6(765172), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2021.765172
Flynn, K. C., Reverby, S., Smith, K. M., & Tobbell, D. (2021). "The thing behind the thing": White supremacy and interdisciplinary faculty in schools of nursing. Nursing Outlook, 69(4), 502-504. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.outlook.2021.03.001
Tobbell, D. A. (2018). Nursing's boundary work: Theory development and the making of nursing science, 1950-1980. Nursing Research, 67(2), 63-73.
Tobbell, D. A. (2016). Clinical pharmacy: An example of interprofessional education in the late 1960s and 1970s. Nursing History Review, 24, 98-102.
Tobbell, D. A. (2016). Teaching with oral histories. Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 90, 128-135.
Tobbell, D. A. (2016). Teaching medical history with primary sources: Introduction. Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 90, 124-127.
Tobbell, D. A. (2014). 'Coming to grips with the nursing question': The politics of nursing education reform in 1960s' America. Nursing History Review, 22, 37-60.
Tobbell, D. A. (2013). Plow, town, and gown: The politics of family practice in 1960s' America. Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 87(4), 648-680.
Tobbell, D. A., Carpenter, D.P. (2011). Bioequivalence: The regulatory career of a pharmaceutical concept. Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 85(1), 93-131.
Tobbell, D. A. (2009). Pharmaceutical networks: The political economy of drug development in the United States, 1945-1980. Enterprise and Society, 10(4), 675-686.
Tobbell, D. A. (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.
Tobbell, D. A. (2008). Allied against reform: Pharmaceutical industry-academic physician relations in the United States, 1945-1970. Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 82(4), 878-912.
Tobbell, D. A., Middleton, B. J., Raines, S., Needham, M. R., Taylor, I. W., Beveridge, J. Y., & Abbott, W. M. (2002). Identification of in vitro folding conditions for Procathepsin S and Cathepsin S using fractional factorial screens. Protein Expression and Purification, 24(2), 242-254.
Books
Tobbell, D. (2022). Dr. Nurse: Science, politics, and the transformation of American nursing. University of Chicago Press.
Tobbell, D. A. (2015). Health informatics at Minnesota: The first fifty years. Tasora Books.
Tobbell, D. A. (2012). Pills, power and policy: The struggle for drug reform in cold war America and its consequences. University of California Press/Milbank Series on Health and the Public.
Book Sections
Tobbell, D. A. (2012). Pharmaceutical politics and regulatory reform in post-war America. In J. Zelizer & K. Philips-Fein (Eds.), What's good for business: Business and politics since World War II (pp. 123-139). Oxford University Press
Tobbell, D. A. (2012). 'Eroding the physician's control over therapy': The post-war politics of the prescription. In E. Watkins & J. Greene (Eds.), Prescribed: Writing, filling, using, and abusing the prescription in modern America (pp. 66-90). Johns Hopkins Press
Tobbell, D. A. (2010). Charitable innovations: The political economy of Thalassemia research and drug development in the United States, 1960-2000. In J. Slinn & V. Quirke (Eds.), Perspectives on twentieth century pharmaceuticals (pp. 303-337). Peter Lang AG
Edited Books
Tobbell, D. A., & Craddock, S. (Eds.). (2021). Troubling access: Global health and pharmacology.. Frontiers Journals.
Columns, Editorials and Op-Eds
Tobbell, D., & D’Antonio, P. (2022, May 1). The history of racism in nursing: A review of existing scholarship. National Commission to Address Racism in Nursing. https://www.nursingworld.org/~49b97e/globalassets/practiceandpolicy/workforce/commission-to-address-racism/1thehistoryofracisminnursing.pdf.
Technical and Research Reports
Tobbell, D., D’Antonio, P. (2022). May. (1).
Tobbell, D.A., & D’Antonio, P. (2020). May 1. (). The history of racism in nursing: A review of existing scholarship. Nursing History Review. https://www.nursingworld.org/~49b97e/globalassets/practiceandpolicy/workforce/commission-to-address-racism/1thehistoryofracisminnursing