Dr. Lydia Wytenbroek

Assistant Professor

Dr. Wytenbroek is a social historian of twentieth-century health care, with a particular interest in understanding and interpreting the historical forces that have shaped the nursing profession and practice. She draws on historical research, sociology, feminist studies and social justice to explore the history of health care and nursing through the lens of race, gender, class, religion and politics. Her current book project, American Nursing (Inter)Nationalism in Iran, examines American mission nurses in Iran and examines mission nursing as nursing imperialism. She is also writing about whiteness and Canadian nursing, nursing voice and social justice, and the history of perioperative nursing in Canada and the United States. She is a member of the Consortium for Nursing History Inquiry at UBC, the Canadian Association for the History of Nursing, the American Association for the History of Nursing, and is the Media Review Editor for Nursing History Review.