December 2019 No 139, 2019/4 - 144 pagesEditorialPages 5 to 6The meaning and the power of symbols exposed by historyBy Ljiljana Jovic, Emmanuelle Cartron, Didier LecordierHistory of nursing knowledgePages 7 to 7ForewordPages 8 to 11The creation of new branches of the French National Council of UniversitiesBy Isabelle Richard, Stéphane Le BoulerPages 12 to 30The emergence of nurses in the health market in Paris in the eighteenth centuryBy Isabelle CoquillardPages 31 to 48Suggestions for an history of French nurses professional qualificationBy Christian ChevandierPages 49 to 63The International School of Advanced Nursing Education, Lyon (1965–1995): A place for the production, dissemination, and development of nursing knowledge in France in the second half of the twentieth centuryBy Michel PoissonPages 64 to 83Compiling a socio-history of the nursing professional group by looking at the training of nurses and senior nursesBy Sophie Divay, Lucile GirardPages 84 to 98Education and health: From practices to knowledgeBy Séverine Parayre, Alicia GarciaPages 99 to 108Psychiatric nurses experiences of the humanization movement during the first and second waves of deinstitutionalization in Quebec (1960-1990)By Marie-Claude Thifault, Laurie KirouacPages 109 to 122An overview of how nursing education has evolved into professional training in North AmericaBy Clémence DallairePages 123 to 143Constructing a research problem: From the story of a female patient with multiple sclerosis to a nursing research project on sexual healthBy Sandrine Lefebvre, Ljiljana Jovic