Oral history interview with Isabel Maitland Stewart, 1960

Biographical Note

Professor of nursing

Scope and Contents

Nursing education in Canada at the end of the 19th century, Winnipeg General Hospital; beginning of graduate nursing education at Teachers College; Lillian Wald; attempts to standardize curricula and improve nursing education; nurses in World War I; travel in Europe and Asia; Goldmark Commission; Rockefeller Commission to investigate curricula in 1927

Subjects

• Benison, Saul, interviewer.
• Columbia University. Teachers College.
• Educators--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Nurses--Interviews.
• Nursing--Study and teaching.
• Nursing schools.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Public health.
• Stewart, Isabel Maitland--Interviews.
• Women--Suffrage.
• World War, 1914-1918--Medical care.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of columbia University in the City of New York, 1972