Dominique Tobbell - history of nursing education
Season 2, Episode 9, Oct 27, 04:22 PM
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Welcome back to For the Medical Record! This week, Richard and Mia sit down with Dominique Tobbell, Centennial Distinguished Professor of Nursing and director of the Eleanor Crowder Bjoring Center for Nursing History of Inquiry at the University of Virginia. Professor Tobbell recently spoke at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing about her recently published book, Dr. Nurse: Science, Politics, and the Transformation of American Nursing. We talk about the history of nursing education and how the debate about whether nurses with doctoral degrees can call themselves "doctors."
Related Resources:
Related Resources:
- The Beyond Florence series in Nursing Clio.
- Hafeeza Anchrum, “Through the Eyes of Black Nurses: The Impact of the Nurse Training Act of 1964.” Policy, Politics, & Nursing Practice (2025) 26(1): 56-64.
- Reynaldo Capucao, Jr., “Filipino Nurses and the US Navy at Hampton Roads, Virginia: The Importance of Place,” Nursing History Review 28 (2020): 158-169
- Christine Peralta, “Nursing the Nation: The Intellectual Labour of Early Migrant Nurses in the US, 1935-1965,” in Margaret Walton-Roberts (ed.), Global Migration, Gender, and Health Professional Credentials: Transnational Value Transfers and Losses (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2022), 289-305.
- Andre Rosario, “The Sentosa Nurses: Historical Context for Policies to Protect Internationally-Educated Nurses from Human Trafficking.” Politics, Politics, & Nursing Practice (2025) 26(1): 47-55
- Laurel Sanders, “Federal Field Nurses and Indigenous Births.” Medical Humanities (2024) 50: 235-245.
- Barbra Mann Wall, William Cessato, and Victoria Tucker, “The ‘Right Kinds of Nurses’: Centering LPNs in the Nursing Labor Force.” Policy, Politics, and Nursing Practice (2025) 26(1): 24-39.
And if you're interested in Prof. Tobbell's newest project, check out:
- Dominique Tobbell, “The Role of Communities in Nurse-Led Clinics, 1965-2000: Lessons from History.” Policy, Politics, and Nursing Practice (2025) 26(1): 6-15.
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For the Medical Record is a podcast from Johns Hopkins University's Center for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine, hosted by Research Associate Richard Del Rio and Postdoctoral Fellow Mia Levenson. New episodes are released biweekly.
In these episodes, we talk to people affiliated with the Center to discuss their research within the history of medicine and the medical humanities. We ask them why their work matters, and how history and the humanities can help us to better understand debates and practices within medicine and care today.