NSG4101 Lecture 2: History of Nursing Week 2
23 Jan 2018
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Primary and secondary sources: (cite michael eamon http://collectionscanada. gc. ca/education/008-3010-e. html) Primary sources - original, 1st hand accounts created at the time of an event or very soon after it happened by someone who saw or heard it themselves. Ex. diaries, letters, photographs, art, maps, video, film, sound, interviews, etc. 5 key questions to critique and question sources. Secondary sources - published accounts created after primary sources or talk about primary sources. Many copies, found in libraries, schools, homes. Ex. hx textbooks, biographies, published stories, movies, art, music, course readings. Primary sources are integral to historical research as they provide unique accounts of past events either at the exact moment, or soon after, by someone who experienced it themselves (eamon). Diaries are immensely fascinating, yet personal, examples of primary sources that can often make the historian feel close to the individual (stowe, 2002). I have chosen to analyze an excerpt of.
