John J. Burns Library
Nursing and Medical Ethics Manuscript Summaries
Summaries of manuscript collections in the Burns Library are provided below. For more detailed information about these same collections, consult the BC Libraries On-Line Catalog.
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- Title: The American Association of Nurse Attorneys Records, 1978-1997
Description: 29 linear ft. (29 boxes).
Finding aids: Preliminary inventory available.
Notes: Some items may be restricted.
Summary: Consists of administrative records of the association and its officers. Includes correspondence, publications, reports,
financial records, meeting minutes, newspaper clippings,
videocassettes and audio cassettes. Some of the material was
gathered by Cynthia Northrup, the association's founder.
Biog/Hist Note: Professional Association. The American Association of Nurse
Attorneys (TAANA) aims to better nurse attorneys and to
educate the public on issues relating to nursing, health
care and law. It has sponsored a variety of activities
since its establishment in 1982.
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- Title: Margaret A. Colliton Papers, 1904-1990 (bulk 1975-1984).
Description: 3 linear ft. (3 boxes)
Notes: Some items may be restricted.
Summary: Consists of manuscripts, personal and professional
correspondence, diaries, photographs of Colliton and her family,
articles on nurses and nursing, and other publications.
Some of the material relates to Shiloah, a non-profit
foundation concerned with the spiritual dimension of nursing
and healing in general.
Biog/Hist Note: Nurse and nurse educator. Colliton was born in 1934 and
received her training at St. Agnes Hospital in Bethesda,
Maryland, the Catholic University of America and Boston
University. From 1967 to 1975 she taught at Yale University, and later operated a private practice and administered Wellspring, a psychiatric facility.
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- Title: Josephine Dolan History of Nursing Collection, 1855-1987
Description: 1 linear ft. (2 boxes.)
Finding aids: Inventory available.
Summary: Composed of correspondence, photographs, films, videocassettes
and publications of Dolan. Also includes artifacts and
other items relating to the history of nursing. There are a
number of letters of Florence Nightingale, as well as some
copies. Most of the Nightingale correspondence is with
Alice Fisher, a Nightingale nurse.
Biog/Hist Note: Nursing professor. Dolan taught at the University of
Connecticut. She received an honorary degree from Boston College in 1987.
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- Title: Eugene G. Laforet Biomedical Ethics Collection [1955?] -
[ongoing]
Description: 19.5 linear ft. (25 boxes).
Finding aids: Partial inventory available.
Summary: Consists mainly of publications, clippings and ephemera
relating to various issues in the field of biomedical
ethics. Also includes materials collected by Laforet for
courses taught at Boston College, as well as programs and
other records of local undergraduate conferences on
bioethics.
Biog/Hist. Note: Surgeon. Laforet graduated from Boston College in 1944 and from Tufts Medical School in 1947. He practiced medicine in
Boston until 1985 and was active in the field of bioethics.
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- Title: Mary E. MacDonald Papers, 1949-1983
Description: 3 folders (1 box)
Summary: Includes papers and addresses of MacDonald. Much of this
material concerns nursing and the practice of medicine.
There is also some correspondence relating to a number of
hospitals and nursing schools in Massachusetts.
Biog/Hist Note: Nurse, Nursing Educator and Nurse Administrator. MacDonald was
involved in nursing education at several Massachusetts
schools in her early career, including Boston College. From
1967 to 1983 she was associated with the Department of
Nursing at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
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- Title: Nursing and Allied Health Resources Section Records, [1980?] - [1995?]
Description: l linear ft. (1 box)
Summary: Composed of publicatons, meeting minutes, financial records,
audio cassettes and other material created by the section.
Biog/Hist Note: Professional association.
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- Title: School of Nursing Records, 1898-1989.
Description: ca. 126 linear ft. (126 boxes).
Finding aids: Preliminary inventory available.
Notes: Student records restricted for 50 years.
Student records and course material available on microfilm.
Summary: Consists of a variety of administrative records of the school including correspondence, meeting minutes, reports,
financial records, speeches, scrapbooks, artifacts,
photographs, publications and ephemera. Much of the
material relates to the nursing students.
Biog/Hist Note: Nursing School. The New England Deaconess Hospital was founded
in 1896, and its first class of nurses graduated in 1898.
The school of nursing expanded greatly in the early twentieth century, and for many years it was associated with
Simmons College, and later Northeastern University. The
school closed in 1989.
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- Title: North American Nursing Diagnosis Association Records, 1973 - 1994.
Description: 6.25 linear ft. (7 boxes).
Notes: Some items may be restricted.
Summary: Made up of administrative records of the association,
including publications, meeting minutes, audio cassettes,
correspondence, memoranda and financial records. Some of
the material deals with conferences of the association.
Biog/Hist Note: Professional association. The North American Nursing Diagnosis
Association (NANDA) was created in 1982 at the Fifth
National Conference for Classification of Nursing Diagnosis.
NANDA develops, refines and promotes a taxonomy of nursing
diagnostic terminology of general use to professional nurses.
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- Title: Cynthia E. Northrup Collection, 1950-1997.
Description: .5 linear ft.
Summary: Composed of materials documenting the life and work of Northrup. Includes a scrapbook, publications, photographs
and correspondence. A few items relate to The American
Association of Nurse Attorneys.
Biog/Hist Note: Nurse attorney. Northrup was born in 1950. She received nursing degrees from Columbia Union College and the
University of Maryland and a law degree from the University
of Baltimore. A noted teacher and author of numerous
publications, Northrup founded the American Association of
Nurse Attorneys in 1982. She died in 1989.
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- Title: Madeleine Clemence Vaillot Papers, 1947-1985 (bulk 1960-1985)
Description: 5.25 linear ft. (11 boxes)
Arrangement: Organized into four series: Massachusetts Nurses Association;
Awards and Honor Societies; Addresses, Articles and
Publications; and Correspondence.
Finding aids: Finding aid available. Folder level control.
Summary: Series I includes Meeting Minutes and other records of the
Massachusetts Nurses' Association during the 1970s and
1980s. Series II contains information on awards,
scholarships and other honors. Series III features
addresses and papers from 1947 to 1985; many deal with the
philosophy and practice of nursing. Series IV consists of
incoming and outgoing correspondence dating from 1960 to 1966.
Biog/Hist Note: Nurse and Nursing school administrator. Vaillot was born in
France. A Dominican Sister, she worked in Europe before
coming to the United States in 1939. From 1940 to 1969 she
directed St. Anne's School of Nursing in Fall River, MA. In
1969 she became Dean of the College of Nursing at
Southeastern Massachusetts University-Dartmouth.
- Title: Visiting Nurse Association of Boston Records, [1910?]-[1960?]
Description: .5 linear ft. (1 box)
Finding aids: Finding aid available.
Summary: Composed of publications and photographs. The publications
include items distributed by the Instructive District
Nursing Association and the Community Health Association.
Most of the photographs depict visiting nurses at work in
the city. Includes an article on Simmons College School of
Nursing.
Biog/Hist Note: Health care organization. The Visiting Nurse Association (VNA)
of Boston was organized in 1884 as the Instructive District
Nursing Association. In 1925 it became the Community Health
Association and in 1943 it received its present name. The association provides home health care services to Boston
residents.
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John J. Burns Library, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467-3801
Updated: November 13, 2000
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