PAPER on HISTORY of KINGSTON NURSES’ TRAINING SCHOOL UNIFORMS
Badges of Honour or Devices of Control?: Uniforms at Kingston General Hospital Training School for Nurses, 1930-1970  presented by Andrea Melvin, a graduate student at the University of Western Ontario’s Master of Arts in Public History Program. Andrea Melvin is the 2008 Margaret Angus Research Fellow at the Museum of Health Care.
Her paper explores the symbolic meanings behind the nursing uniform and cap, focusing on how nursing uniforms benefited nurses by enabling a professional and cultural agency for the woman wearing them. Also discussed is fashion and the role of nursing uniforms in informing aspects of social and cultural interaction.
The 2008 research presentation is scheduled for Thursday, October 9th, at 7 p.m. at the Glaxo Wellcome Clinical Education Centre (Louise D. Acton Building, 31 George Street, Queen’s University.
On Thursday, November 13, there will be an opening for an exhibition in the Museum of Health Care for an exhibition in the first permanent gallery dedicated to the history of nursing education at Kingston General Hospital between 1886 and 1974.
The Museum of Health Care’s website is: http://www.museumofhealthcare.ca/margaretangus.html and an event flyer could be e-mailed. Building accessibility information at www.queensu.ca/pas/access/Ida.htm