AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Arlene W. Keeling is the Centennial Distinguished Professor of Nursing, Director, the Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry, and Director, the Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Program at the University of Virginia, School of Nursing.

REVIEWS

“The book’s most important contribution will be that it describes what nurses did for clients, their actual activities that required advanced knowledge and skill, as there was more than just ‘caring’ as noted in popular advertisements today.” —Barbra Mann Wall, author of Unlikely Entrepreneurs: Catholic Sisters and the Hospital Marketplace, 1865–1925

“The whole notion of prescriptive authority is currently one of the significant and at times contentious issues in American health care. In Nursing and the Privilege of Prescription, 1893–2000, Arlene W. Keeling provides a significant history of a very important, relevant and timely topic in twentieth-century American nursing.” —Patricia D’Antonio, editor, The Nursing History Review

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1	Midway between the Pharmacist and the Physician: The Work of the Henry Street Settlement Visiting Nurses, 1893¿1944
Chapter 2	Practicing Medicine without a License? Nurse Anesthetists, 1900¿1938
Chapter 3	Providing Care in the ¿Hoot Owl Hollers¿: Nursing, Medicine, and the Law in the Frontier Nursing Service, 1925¿1950
Chapter 4	My Treatment Was Castor Oil and Aspirin: Field Nursing among the Navajo in the Four Corners Region, 1925¿1955
Chapter 5	Verbal Orders and Hospital Nursing: Expanding Nurses¿ Scope of Practice in the Mid-Twentieth Century
Chapter 6	Nurse Practitioners and the Prescription Pad, 1965¿1980
Chapter 7	Prescriptive Authority for Advanced Practice Nurses, 1980¿2000
Chapter 8:	Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index