Spring 1997 Vol9 N02
rSSN 1049-2259
GRANTS AND AWARDS Karen Buhler-Wil kerson, Direc tor
of the CenterjiJr the SluJy ol' the His
tor oj' Nursing h a~ be n awarded a
National Institu te f Healt h, Natio nal
Lib rar of Med ic ine Grant. He r study
is ti tlee! "End l ss Ob i igation : Home
Care in America, J880-1 930."Grant
support is be ing provided to c m
pl ete a boo" that. will furn ish a COIll pr hens ive analys is of lhc history o f
home ca e . Focusi ng on the sic"
rooms the: ri h, middle class, and
poor. the buok will eXll mi.ne if and
how rac . income, type of illness, an
local condi tio ns and pattern. of prac
ti c det.ermi ne access t care and IHt
lure of care prov ided . T he ndle"
obl igation of caring for the sick at
home w ill be studied fro m th pe r . p cti ve of nurse. , phys ic ians. and
Karen Huhta-Wilkerson. Directo r oFlhe e enler. has received several honors and \ViII hI! gu ing 10 .lapan/or (1/1 Invitational fami ly care ", ivers . F in,lUy, thi s book
F·e!lu\\,ship./i·o//lih e Jnp({11 (lc iefy ./i!r the Pro/llotio/l ojScildllcc con s id er~ th impact ()f cia.l aUi
tud , medical ad an es, d mo gra phic chan",e " ane! econo mic fac tors in sh i fti ng the loc us of care fro m home to hospi tal and mo ·t rece nt ly. back to the home. I
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Add itional support for this study is being provided by a g rant tilled, " H me Care for th e Eld erly: Re membering the P ast W hile A nti cipating the Future. " This grant is bt! in pro vid d by the Fran k JoneslFolkways Fund . D r. Buh ler-Wi lkerson has also been se lected to rece ive an Invita tional Fello wsh ip from the Ja pan Societ for the Promotion of ~ c i e nc e . She will be com pleting her fe llowsh ip in the Fat! of 1997. Her host w il l be C hiba U nive rsity School of Nu rsing (Japan ). <Uld the foc us of he r reo earth will be home car in Japa n.
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Dr. Ju lie Fairman recen tly recei ed funding fro 111 the Unive rsity Re earch F oun da tion for a study entitled "Sile nt a nd Hidden : Ge nd r, Power, and the History of ul'se-Physician R lationsb ips." This histo rical in esti gati on, a pre liminary study fo r a larg r resera h in itiati ve, ex ami nes nurse-physician relation shi ps using gende r as an ana lytica l fra me work. Since the tLi rn of the century. doctors and nurses have had a long tradition of adversarial re lati onships be S d on geoder and fueled by pa t e rna l i~ti c con trol and powe r structu res in hospi tals. The hi . tory of relationships b twee n nurse practitioners and ph . icians in th s tate of Pe nnsylvania . 19 70- 198 0, as to ld by the public and leg isl' ti e batt le to cr ate nu r:e prac ti tio ner ree ul:ltions epitomizes both hi storical and contemporary ·trugglc s betwe n the medica l an d nu rsi ng profess ional s over ge nde r. power, and control.