Plaudits & Gripes

Authors

  • Anne Marie Martine Arseneault
  • Lynn Kirkwood

Abstract

The stated policy of assigning low priority to historical research (Spring/ Printemps, 1993) confirms what some of us interested in nursing history have long suspected. We are aware of a number of nurse historians who have had papers rejected by your journal. In fact, a quick perusal of past issues indicates that only three papers remotely related to historical research have been published. This is an extremely short-sighted policy and somewhat ironic given your historical speculation in the past three editorials. We cannot understand the present and plan for the future unless we have some awareness of how the past took shape. This is a message which all nurses engaged in research, clinical practice, or policy making must heed as we take part in reforming health services. The study of history has another value for nurses, that of learning the skills of analysis.

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1993-04-13

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