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Library Resource Guides: Focus on clinical speciality or illness

Recommended reference sources

Nurses and midwives in Australian history : a guide to historical resources by Noeline Kyle, R Lynette Russell & Jennifer Blundell
Call Number: 610.730994 KYL 2015

General nursing history texts

Nurses of Australia: the illustrated story by Deborah Burrows
Call Number: 610.734309944223 BUR 2018
The growth of a profession : nursing in Victoria 1930s-1980s by Judith & Bob Bessant
Call Number: 610.7309945 BES 1991
Celebrating nursing : a visual history by Christine E. Hallett
Call Number: 610.7309 HAL 2010

Focus on specific aspects of nursing

All the little children : the story of Victoria's baby health centres 1917-2017 by Heather Sheard
Call Number: 362.1982 SHE 2017
Unmasked : a History of the Perioperative Nurses Group : the First Fifty Years 1957 - 2007 by Carollyn Williams
Call Number: 617.023 WIL
There's a bird in my hand and a bear by the bed - I must be in ICU : the pivotal years of Australian critical care nursing by Valda Wiles & Kathy Daffurn
Call Number: 610.736 WIL 2002

Mental illness & psychiatric nursing

The Care That Was by Harald Reischel
Call Number: 610.7368 REI 2003
Round the bend : a history of psychiatric nursing in Victoria, Australia by Natisha Sands & John Vokoun
Call Number: 616.890231 SAN 2013
ISBN: 9780646920320

Browse the ANMF (Vic Branch) Library History collection

Browse the History collection in the Library catalogue

Audiovisual resources

Round the bend : a history of psychiatric nursing in Victoria, Australia by Natisha Sands & John Vokoun
Call Number: 616.890231 SAN 2013
ISBN: 9780646920320

Web resources

Australian Nursing and Midwifery History Project
The ANMHP is hosted by the Department of Nursing at the University of Melbourne. It includes a biographical register, details of historic nursing organisations, and reference sources.
Encyclopaedia of Australian Science database
Features information about individuals, organisations, societies, institutions, and industries, including several biographies of Australian nurses and midwives.
Victorian Collections
Includes digitised photos, uniforms, and ephemera from a range of Victorian libraries, archives, museums and historical societies. eHive is another, similar resource.