Sonya Grypma, Associate Professor, Trinity Western University, BC, Canada
Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania
Time: 12:15 p.m.
Place: 2U Conference Room, Room 2019, Claire Fagin Hall
University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing
Abstract: Researchers poised to commence work on the as-yet-unwritten history of American missionary nurses in China ought to be mindful of a growing expectation that serious research on China missions must go beyond the conventional reliance on English-language data generation and interpretation for an English-speaking audience. Building on ongoing research on the role of missionary nurses in the development of modern nursing in China, and based on a series of interviews recently conducted in China of participants with ties to a former Canadian mission hospital, this seminar explores ethical and methodological challenges of international and intercultural historical research in nursing.