@inbook{10.5749/j.cttttn4z.12,
 ISBN = {9780816648221},
 URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.cttttn4z.12},
 abstract = {In 1937, the National Organization of Public Health Nursing (hereafter NOPHN) celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary, an accomplishment that inspired the organization to take stock of its past and future rather self-consciously. In the two and a half decades since its advent, the NOPHN had undergone important structural changes. From an organization of less than two hundred members in 1912, it had grown to one of eight thousand, claiming a larger community of twenty thousand public health nurses in the United States, capable together of making twenty-nine million visits each year. Increasingly, its practitioners viewed their main object as “health,” and},
 author = {SHAWN MICHELLE SMITH},
 booktitle = {Imagining Illness: Public Health and Visual Culture},
 edition = {NED - New edition},
 pages = {143--166},
 publisher = {University of Minnesota Press},
 title = {Nursing the Nation: The 1930s Public Health Nurse as Image and Icon},
 year = {2010}
}