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Black (In)Visibility:

Posted by michelle lam in 2021 Spring/Summer

Black Nurses in Canada Who Paved the Way Nursing History Symposium Celebrates Black History Month Doctoral student Ismalia De Sousa played a significant role in creating the conditions that led to the nursing history seminar presented in February. A year before, Ismalia and another doctoral student, Eunice Bawafaa, wrote an article entitled: “Black History Month: A Recognition of Black Nurses’ Contributions to Healthcare in Canada and the World”, exposing the reality that this was the first time anyone at the school had formally observed Black History Month. Curious about the…read more

Congress 2019

Back to Table of Contents Congress 2019 Icons, Trailblazers, and Symbols of Virtue: Nurses in Public Memory The joint conference of the Canadian Society for the History of Medicine and the Canadian Association for the History of Nursing, held during the Congress 2019 at UBC from June 1 – 3, was host to a special program celebrating the centenary of the UBC School of Nursing. In a pre-lunch seminar session Geertje Boschma (UBC) and Margaret Scaia (UVic) examined the beginning…read more