Called to Nurse: Nursing, Race, and Americanization in Early 20th–Century Puerto Rico

ABSTRACT

The article begins with a description of the consonances between Americanization and the overall Portestant missionary project to establish missionaries'relationship to the imperial project. it also argue tha pre-1898 material conditions and ideologies pushed missionaires tom odify their original plans for recruiting nursing studentes which produced a more inclusive admission policy. Two decades later, however, amreicanization wrought changes in thise arenas that led to a racially exclusive policy. The article addresses worthy citizens of Christian America, a finer womanhood,a stronger manhood, and a healthier nation, Rosa A. González and the professionalization of nursing, the unknown facts, and the problems of recruiting consecrated women, and no sorority of consciousness.(AU)