Julia F. Irwin, Doctoral Candidate, Yale University
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: This paper examines the transcontinental travels of three American Red Cross nurses during World War I and the 1920s. In careers that took them from the United States to Western Europe, Eastern Europe and Russia, and Asia, these women transported American ideas about health and welfare worldwide. Their biographies offer historians of American internationalism a means to chart the spread of American influence in action, while for historians of medicine and nursing, they shed light on the export of health and professional ideas from the United States to the international world.