Canada was eventful time. The week was terrific. To be able to talk to so many different people in the same subjects was great. Thug the more I study History of nursing it becomes more apparent that it is a very little studied topic in the way of a historical topic. What I mean that there were very few people I have met that have not been nurses in their previous life- so there is little of the history of nursing that has been studied because it is history but has been studied as topics of interest of previous nurses. The History of Medicine appears to be a bit further in the venture of gaining historians to study the History of Medicine but have a similar problem.
It would be great if there was some way to do the Humanities congress in Britain. It was terrific how the Canadian Humanities and Social science have come together to allow for all the associations and societies of these subject to be brought to one place to discuss further and current research in their fields; to see so many societies that are of these 2 subjects in one place, shows how big an impact the humanities has in society today. With the climate of change in Britain at present, this I think, would make a great forum and advertisement of what the Humanities and Social sciences have to offer.
In the presentations I attended there were some terrific papers on both the History of Medicine and the History of Nursing, most were of North American n, but there were a few presentations about Britain. There were also some presentation in conjunction with the Canadian Historical Association, which were themed on the difficulties of primary research and how it is archived and how easy or hard it is to access those archives.
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