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.Included in Volume 25: Compassionate Care Through the Centuries: Highlights in Nursing History ""Endeavoring to Carry On Their Work"": The National Debate Over Midwives and Its Impact in Rhode Island, 1890-1940 ""A Powerful Protector of the Japanese People"": The History of the Japanese Fishermen's Hospital in Steveston, British Columbia, Canada, 1896-1942 Confectionery Care: The Child as a Category of Historical Analysis ""Doctors Don't Do So Much Good"": Traditional Practices, Biomedicine, and Infant Care in the 20th-Century United States
