
"Physician and Nurse Practitioner: Conflict and Reward". "Twelve Paradoxes: A Message for Nurse Practitioners". Actress and singer knew for playing Phoebe in the 1950 film All About Eve starring Bette Davis and George Sanders. "Doctor and Nurse: Changing Roles and Relations". Barbara Bates was born in Denver, CO on August 6, 1925. Bargaining for Life: A Social History of Tuberculosis, 1876-1938. A Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking. Lynaugh is the co-founder and director emerita of the Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing, a research center at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. Bates was survived by longtime companion Dr. Not only did she win but meeting Cecil Coan, a United Artists publicist, during that Hollywood trip altered the course of her life forever. The shy teen was persuaded to enter a local beauty contes. Later life īates died of Alzheimer's disease in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, in 2002. Born 1925 in Denver, Colorado, American actress and singer Barbara Bates studied ballet and worked as a teen fashion model. Dock Award from the American Association for the History of Nursing in 1993. Her second book, Bargaining for Life: A Social History of Tuberculosis, 1876-1938, won the Lavinia L. In her obituary, The New York Times described the book as "the leading text in its field." Bates received the Smith College Medal from her alma mater in 1980. Her first book, A Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking, was written in 1974 and published in eleven languages. īates became known for contributions beyond direct patient care and teaching. She also held an appointment at MCP Hahnemann University. In 1980, Bates came to the University of Pennsylvania, where she was a faculty member in nursing and in medicine. In 1976, she moved on to the University of Missouri-Kansas City, which was establishing a six-year post-high school medical program to increase the supply of rural physicians. She subsequently worked with the University of Kentucky and the University of Rochester. Medical career Īfter completion of her residency training, Bates established an internal medicine practice in Greenwich, Connecticut. Once her medical career was established, Bates earned two master's degrees in history, one from the University of Kansas and one from the University of Pennsylvania. She also completed a medical residency at Cornell. She helped to develop the role of the nurse practitioner in American healthcare and she wrote a thorough account on the history of tuberculosis in Pennsylvania.īiography Education and early life īates attended Smith College as an undergraduate and earned a medical degree at Cornell University. medical schools, and she was on both the medical and nursing school faculties at the University of Pennsylvania.

She authored a leading medical textbook on physical examination. Barbara Bates, MD, MA (1928 – December 18, 2002) was an American physician, author and historian.
