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Frances Elisabeth Crowell
University of West Florida Libraries
Master of Arts (MA), University of West Florida
1996
Abstract
Frances Elisabeth Crowell, an American nurse-social worker, served on the Rockefeller Foundation staff in Europe from 1917 until 1940. Initially, she played a major role in organizing dispensaries and training health visitors during the tuberculosis crisis in France. After the First World War, she studied the state of nursing in Europe and made recommendations, enabling those countries to upgrade nursing education in order to meet growing public health needs. Crowell successfully coordinated efforts of the Foundation, European health ministries, and nursing leaders to achieve these objectives. Because she continued the health visitors program, some of her American colleagues charged that her programs did not meet American nursing education standards. A comparison of her professional experiences in the United States with her work in Europe demonstrates that her understanding of public health nursing and social work, and her insight about European cultures precluded the unqualified imposition of American nursing standards on European countries.
Details
- Title
- Frances Elisabeth Crowell
- Resource Type
- Thesis
- Publisher
- University of West Florida Libraries
- Format
- pdf
- Number of pages
- 109
- Copyright
- Permission granted to the University of West Florida Libraries to digitize and/or display this item for non-profit research and educational purposes. Any reuse of this item in excess of fair use or other copyright exemptions requires the permission of the copyright holder.
- Identifiers
- 99380090717306600
- Academic Unit
- History and Philosophy
- Language
- English
- Awarding Institution
- University of West Florida; Master of Arts (MA)
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Arts (MA), University of West Florida