Emerson, Charles Phillips MD and Taylor, Jane Elizabeth RN. Essentials of Medicine. 14th edition. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1940.
Gill, Gillian. Nightingales: The Extraordinary Upbringing and Curious Life of Miss Florence Nightingale. New York: Ballantine Books, 2004.
Harmer, Bertha, RN, and Henderson, Virginia, RN. Textbook of the Principles and Practices of Nursing. 4th edition. New York: The MacMillan Company, 1939.
Schultheiss, Katrin. Bodies and Souls: Politics and the Professionalization of Nursing in France, 1880–1922. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001.
Alexander, Franz G. and Selesnick, Sheldon T. The History of Psychiatry. New York: The New American Library, 1966.
Goffman, Erving. Asylums. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1961.
Goss, David. 150 Years of Caring: The Continuing History of Canada’s Oldest Mental Health Facility. Saint John, New Brunswick: Mindcare New Brunswick, 1998.
BOOKS ON RELIGION
Bernstein, Marcelle. Nuns. London: Collins, 1976.