Julie Fairman

she/her/hers

Nightingale Professor in Honor of Nursing Veterans

fairman@upenn.edu

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Research Interests

• Nursing
• History of 20th century health care
• Relationship between gender, nursing, and technology (critical care)

Affiliation

School of Nursing

Bio

Julie Fairman is a nurse historian whose work on the history of 20th Century health care represents a track record of consistent funding, including fellowships from the NLM, NEH and RWJ. Her work on the history of critical care earned her awards from the American Association of the History of Nursing and her first book, Critical Nursing: A History, received favorable reviews in the national and regional popular press and from reviewers in professional journals.