"If you are at all familiar with the dominant vocabulary of American bioethics, you are undoubtedly aware that it is a…"

"In a world where there is so much to be done, I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do."

"When I got really sick at the age of 21, I had my first experience of limit, of pain and loneliness. It changed the w…"

"Murder by Proxy.-“There is at the present time, a kind of infanticide, which, although it is not so well known, is ev…"

"It is needless to recapitulate all the causes of unchastity which have previously been quite fully dwelt upon, nearly…"

"Wicked Nurses.-In those cases in which the habit is acquired at a very early age, the work of evil is usually wrought…"

"By the early 1890s nurses had begun seriously to discuss ethical issues in nursing. In 1899 the International Council…"

"I use the word nursing for want of a better. It has been limited to signify little more than the administration of me…"

"No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this — "devoted and obedien…"

"It is as impossible in a book to teach a person in charge of sick how to manage, as it is to teach her how to nurse. …"