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Cynthia Connolly

Assistant Professor of History of Medicine (School of Medicine) & Graduate Entry Pre-Specialty and Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Specialty Education:
  • University of Pennsylvania, B.S. (Nursing) 1980.
  • University of Rochester, M.S. (Nursing) 1987.
  • University of Pennsylvania, Ph.D. (Nursing) 1999.
Research Interests Nursing history, history of infectious diseases, changing ideas and practices with regard to children's health, foundations of American health care, health care policy. Selected Publications:
  • Books
  • Fifty years at the Division of Nursing United States Public Health Service. Washington, DC: American Nurses Association, 1997 (with J. Lynaugh).
  • Articles
  • "A History of Pediatric Antituberculosis Experiments in France, Germany, and the United States, 1890-1945." (submitted)
  • "Replacing the "Grim Nurses of Poverty and Sickness" with Pediatric Nurses: Trained Nurses at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 1855-1941." (with M. Walton) (in press).
  • "Beyond social history: New approaches to understanding the state of and the state in nursing history." Nursing History Review 12:5-24, 2004.
  • "Nurses: The early twentieth century tuberculosis preventorium movement's 'connecting link'." Nursing History Review 10:127-157, 2002.
  • "The TB preventorium." American Journal of Nursing 100:62-65, 2000.
  • "Hampton, Nutting, and rival gospels at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and Training School for Nurses, 1889-1906." IMAGE: Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 30:23- 29, 1998.
  • "Lucile Petry Leone." Notable American women. Volume 2. (Boston: Radcliffe Press). 1998.
  • "Margaret Arnstein." American history encyclopedia of Jewish women. (New York: Routledge), 65-66. 1998.
  • "The necessary length of stay with chronic pulmonary disease." JAMA 266:80- 84. 1991 (with Mushlin, A.I., Black, E.R., Buonaccorso, K., and Eberly, S.)

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