Nursing in the Community: Nurse-Led Clinics & The Politics of Community Health in the 1960s & 1970s

The Nursing Archives Associates Speaker Series welcomes DOMINIQUE A. TOBBELL, PhD, Centennial Distinguished Professor and Director, Eleanor Crowder Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry, University of Virginia School of Nursing. Dr. Tobbell is a historian of nursing and health care whose research examines the complex political, economic, and social relationships that developed among academic institutions, governments, and the health care industry in the decades after World War II and assesses the implications of those relationships for the current health care system. She is the author of three books, including, most recently, Dr. Nurse: Science, Politics, and the Transformation of American Nursing (University of Chicago Press, 2022). She has been the recipient of several awards, fellowships, and grants including from the American Philosophical Society and the American Association for the History of Nursing.