Dr. Nurse

"""With thousands of US nurses leaving their profession in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and others striking for safe nurse:patient ratios, Tobbell offers a timely study of the post-WWII nursing project at publicly funded US universities, known as Academic Health Centers (AHCs). . . Dr. Nurse is well organized, and includes extensive endnotes citing original sources and a useful index. It is essential reading for understanding the disparate forces that have shaped the education, quality, and sufficiency of the US health care labor force."" * Choice * “No other volume comes close to Dr. Nurse in describing and analyzing the journey of American nurses to establish nursing as an academic discipline and nurses as valued researchers in the decades after World War II. Tobbell’s book is a critical addition to the current scholarship and will be welcomed by nursing PhD programs and by students and scholars of women’s studies and education and policy history.” -- Julie A. Fairman, University of Pennsylvania “Dr. Nurse is a very rewarding read. Using perspectives drawn from the sociology of the professions and feminist histories of science, Tobbell explores the ways nurse scientists are both undervalued and in high demand, then connects that paradox convincingly to nursing’s own difficulties confronting racial and class diversity among its practitioners. Her argument is cogent and illustrated by engaging case studies.” -- Nancy Tomes, Stony Brook University"