Dictionary of American nursing biography
By: Martin Kaufman, editor-in-chief ; Joellen Watson Hawkins, Loretta P. Higgins, and Alice Howell Friedman, contributing editors.
Contributors: Kaufman, Martin, 1940-
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: 1988
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 462
Subjects: Nurses -- United States -- Biography -- Dictionaries; History of Nursing -- United States; Nursing -- United States -- biography; United States -- Biography -- Dictionaries
Other titles: Dictionary of American medical biography.
Description: Contains 196 sketches of persons who were important in the history of American nursing from the mid-nineteenth century to Jan. 31, 1987. Signed entries give personal, education, and career information, as well as writings and references. Appendixes list names by place of birth, by state where prominent, and by specialty or occupation. Index.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.
Companion v. to: Dictionary of American medical biography.