Cynthia Connolly

Assistant Professor of History of Medicine (School of Medicine) & Graduate Entry Pre-Specialty and Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Specialty

Nursing history, history of infectious diseases, changing ideas and practices with regard to children's health, foundations of American health care, health care policy.

Education

• University of Pennsylvania, B.S. (Nursing) 1980.
• University of Rochester, M.S. (Nursing) 1987.
• University of Pennsylvania, Ph.D. (Nursing) 1999.

Selected Publications

Books, edited volumes

• Saving Sickly Children: The Tuberculosis Preventorium in American Life, 1909-1970 *
• Fifty years at the Division of Nursing United States Public Health Service. Washington, DC: American Nurses Association, 1997 (with J. Lynaugh).

Articles

• A History of Pediatric Antituberculosis Experiments in France, Germany, and the United States, 1890-1945. Nursing Inquiry, 11, 138-47, 2004.
• “Typhoid Fever: The pivotal role of nurses at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia between 1895 and 1910: how the past informs the present.” American Journal of Nursing. 105, 75-8, 2005 (with M. Walton).
• “Beyond social history: New approaches to understanding the state of and the state in nursing history.” Nursing History Review 12:5-24, 2004.
• “Nurses: The early twentieth century tuberculosis preventorium movement's 'connecting link'.” Nursing History Review 10:127-157, 2002.
• “The TB preventorium.” American Journal of Nursing 100:62-65, 2000.
• “Hampton, Nutting, and rival gospels at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and Training School for Nurses, 1889-1906.” IMAGE: Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 30:23- 29, 1998.
• “The necessary length of stay with chronic pulmonary disease.” JAMA 266:80- 84. 1991 (with Mushlin, A.I., Black, E.R., Buonaccorso, K., and Eberly).