Making Room in the Clinic

"Fairman writes an impressive history of nurse practitioners--an eminently readable and scholarly critique of how nursing changed and adapted to society, politics and economics from the 1960s through the 1980s." -- Sandra B. Lewenson, EdD, RN, FAAN * Professor of Nursing, Lienhard School of Nursing, Pace University *
"Fairman addresses critical issues that are relevant to the nursing and medical professions today and provides a much-needed history of the nurse practitioner movement." -- Arlene W. Keeling * Centennial Distinguished Professor of Nursing, University of Virginia, Director *
"Making Room in the Clinic provides a nuanced and sophisticated historical analysis of the rise of nurse practitioners, focusing on how a shift in proactice politics and clinical thinking was created. Fairman suggests ways why, for many of us, the best doctor in our future may indeed be a nurse. Given our current primary care crisis, this is a must read for anyone who cares about the present and future of American health care." -- Susan M. Reverby * Women's Studies Department, Wellesley College *
"Julie Fairman's robust defense of nurse practitioners could not be more timely. As the US debates how to provide millions of uninsured Americans with health care the greatest challenge will be to determine how to provide services and make sure they are safe and of high quality. This detailed history highlights the complexities involved in responding to that challenge." -- Suzanne Gordon * co-author of Safety in Numbers *
"This is a well-researched, well-written, and scholarly work that highlights complex ways in which advanced practice nurses and physicians negotiated the boundaries of clinical care for vulnerable patients. Recommended." * Choice *
"Making Room in the Clinic not only documents the development of a new type of health care worked but sets it clearly within the wider context of nursing and medicine in the 1960s and 1970s. Fairman's history of the nurse practitioner movement adds an important dimension to scholarship on health care in the post-World War II era." * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *
"Fairman writes an impressive history of nurse practitioners--an eminently readable and scholarly critique of how nursing changed and adapted to society, politics and economics from the 1960s through the 1980s." -- Sandra B. Lewenson, EdD, RN, FAAN * Professor of Nursing, Lienhard School of Nursing, Pace University *
"Fairman addresses critical issues that are relevant to the nursing and medical professions today and provides a much-needed history of the nurse practitioner movement." -- Arlene W. Keeling * Centennial Distinguished Professor of Nursing, University of Virginia, Director *
"Making Room in the Clinic provides a nuanced and sophisticated historical analysis of the rise of nurse practitioners, focusing on how a shift in proactice politics and clinical thinking was created. Fairman suggests ways why, for many of us, the best doctor in our future may indeed be a nurse. Given our current primary care crisis, this is a must read for anyone who cares about the present and future of American health care." -- Susan M. Reverby * Women's Studies Department, Wellesley College *
"Julie Fairman's robust defense of nurse practitioners could not be more timely. As the US debates how to provide millions of uninsured Americans with health care the greatest challenge will be to determine how to provide services and make sure they are safe and of high quality. This detailed history highlights the complexities involved in responding to that challenge." -- Suzanne Gordon * co-author of Safety in Numbers *
"This is a well-researched, well-written, and scholarly work that highlights complex ways in which advanced practice nurses and physicians negotiated the boundaries of clinical care for vulnerable patients. Recommended." * Choice *
"Making Room in the Clinic not only documents the development of a new type of health care worked but sets it clearly within the wider context of nursing and medicine in the 1960s and 1970s. Fairman's history of the nurse practitioner movement adds an important dimension to scholarship on health care in the post-World War II era." * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *