Nursing History Review, an annual peer-reviewed publication of the American Association for the History of Nursing, is a showcase for the most significant current research on nursing history. Regular sections include scholarly articles, over a dozen book reviews of the best publications on nursing and health care history that have appeared in the past year, and a section abstracting new doctoral dissertations on nursing history. Historians, researchers, and individuals fascinated with the rich field of nursing will find this an important resource.

"Editorial, Joan E. LynaughARTICLESThe Physician's Eyes: American Nursing and the Diagnostic Revolution in Medicine, Margarete SandelowskiEleanor Clarke Slagel and Susan E. Tracy: Personal and Professional Identity and the Development of Occupational Therapy in Progressive Era America, Virginia A. MetaxasNursing Reorganization in Occupied Japan, 1945-1951, Reiko Shimazaki RyderMedical Service to Settlers: The Gestation and Establishment of a Nursing Service in Quebec, 1932-1943, Nicole Rousseau and Johanne DaigleTo Cultivate a Feeling of Confidence: The Nursing of Obstetric Patients, 1890-1940, Sylvia RinkerWe Must Have Nurses: Spanish Influenza in America, 1918-1919, Rhonda Keen-PayneThe Miners' Hospitals of West Virginia: Nurses and Healthcare Come to the Coal Fields, 1900-1920, John C. KirchgessnerA Hard Day's Work: Institutional Nursing in the Post-World War II Era, Victoria T. GrandoBOOK REVIEWSSubject Index"