Luther Christman by Elizabeth Pittman

Luther Christman by Elizabeth Pittman

The biography of Luther Christman recounts how a male nurse and a provocative visionary in an essentially female profession became a 20th century American icon.

Dr Elizabeth Pittman, adjunct senior lecturer, School of Nursing, La Trobe University, Australia, recently retired as Director, Continuing and Distance Education Unit. She now writes on nursing and health issues. Dr Pittman holds master and doctorate degrees in education from the University of Melbourne and is a Fellow of the Royal Australian College of Nursing (RCNA). In 1978, she was awarded the La Trobe Universtiy, David B Myer's Medal. She is a member of the Mental Health Research and Ethics Committee, Royal Melbourne Hospital.

Dr Pittman was funded by the RCNA to undertake research on the roles of nurse administrators and educators and their educational requirements in the early 1980s when nursing education was moving into universities in Australia and baccalaureate degrees became the entry level to registration. She contributed a chapter in Gray and Pratt (eds.), Issues in Australian Nursing, has published academic papers in journals and delivered papers at conferences on nursing topics. She has written correspondence subjects for students, including a master's level subject titled Leadership in Nursing, plus numerous editorials and articles promoting distance education.

Dr Pittman has just completed a book titled Take your medicine with a grain of salt, which is a critical history of self-medication and the pharmaceutical industry, Western Medicine and Contemporary and Alternative Medicine and what we expect of each and what they deliver. She is also co-authoring a History of the Joanna Briggs Institute.

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ISBN 13	9781412201599
ISBN 10	1412201594
Title	Luther Christman
Author	Elizabeth Pittman
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Trafford Publishing
Year published	2005-12-29
Number of pages	212
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