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ISBN: 9780776603872-03

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Shifting Professional Boundaries: Gender Conflict in Public Health, 1920-1925

From: Caring and Curing

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Conflict and contradictions were inevitable as public health nurses and physicians attempted to work together.

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Meryn Stuart

Meryn Stuart was Associate Professor in the School of Nursing and the first Director of the Nursing History Research Unit (2005 - 2009). She is a former public health nurse who worked in southwestern Ontario and in Ottawa-Carleton. Dr Stuart is a feminist social historian whose primary research areas are in public health nursing in Ontario, nursing education, and First World War military nursing. She was one of 100 nurses recognized with a Centennial Award, created for the centennial celebrations of the Canadian Nurses Association in 2008 to honour exceptional registered nurses whose work has had a positive impact on the nursing profession.