Sponsored by the Office for History of Science and Technology (UC Berkeley)
And the History of Health Sciences Program (UCSF)
Molly Sutphen
UCSF and Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
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Basic Sciences for Nurses? The Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Education of Nurses, 1955-1975
For the last fifty years nurses and educators have argued about what kind of knowledge nurses need to practice and how they needed to acquire it. At the center of these debates have been questions of professional identity. What do nurses do? What kind of knowledge do nurses need and who should decide for the profession? One set of debates in the 1960s and 1970s centered on the type of knowledge students needed in order to change the profession and society. Practitioners and educators reflected on what nurses needed to know in order to practice in desegregated hospitals or in multicultural communities. During the period under discussion they were also deeply concerned about what they called a knowledge explosion in medicine and nursing. This paper will explore these debates during a period when schools and professional organizations began to create several educational paths for entry into the profession. It will focus on the promises offered by introducing the humanities and social and behavioral sciences to the curriculum.
4:00PM
Monday, March 6, 2006
140 Barrows Hall
UC Berkeley
Office for History of Science and Technology, 543 Stephens Hall #2350
University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-2350
tel: (510) 642-4581, e-mail: diana@berkeley.edu
