Bonnie Louise (née Larsen) Bullough (5 January 1927 in

Delta, Utah Delta is the largest city in Millard County, Utah, Millard County, Utah, United States. It is located in the northeastern area of Millard County along the Sevier River and is surrounded by farmland. The population was 3,622 at the 2020 United St ...

– 12 April 1996) was an accomplished sexologist and author, who helped to develop the first Nurse Practitioner Program in California at UCLA in 1968. Throughout her career, she edited or wrote 30 books as well as 112 published articles.

Educational involvement

Bullough finished her bachelor's degree in 1955, after working as a public health nurse in the Chicago Public Health Department while her husband,

Vern Bullough Vern Leroy Bullough (July 24, 1928 – June 21, 2006) was an American historian and sexologist. He was a distinguished professor emeritus at the State University of New York ( SUNY) at Buffalo, Faculty President at California State University, N ...

, completed his doctorate. Bullough received her masters in

nursing Nursing is a health care profession that "integrates the art and science of caring and focuses on the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and human functioning; prevention of illness and injury; facilitation of healing; and alle ...

from The University of California- Los Angeles in 1959, followed by a masters and Ph.D. in

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. After starting the first nurse practitioner program in California at

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, she went on to develop a masters program in nursing, one of the first in the United States. In 1975, she became the coordinator of graduate studies at California State University--Long Beach, directing nurse practitioner education. She became the dean of nursing at

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in 1979, and is considered a pioneer in the

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School of Nursing.

Awards and accomplishments

*Nurse Practitioner of the Year - 1991 *Alfred C. Kinsey Award - 1995 *Founder of

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Program at

- 1969 *

Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality The Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality (SSSS, or "quad-S") is a 501(c)(3) non-profit professional membership organization "dedicated to advancing knowledge of sexuality and communicating scientifically based sexuality research and scholar ...

Co-Founder

Legacy

Bonnie Bullough's archives reside at the University Library at

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, where an endowment in her name funds special lectures, scholarships, and collection development in sex and gender studies.

Selected bibliography

* ''Poverty, Ethnic Identity, and Health Care'' - 1972 * ''Sin, Sickness and Sanity: A History of Sexual Attitudes'' - 1977 * ''Prostitution: an Illustrated Social History'' - 1978 * ''Nursing: A Historical Bibliography'' - 1981 * ''Women and Prostitution: A Social History'' - 1987 * ''Cross Dressing, Sex, and Gender'' - 1993 * ''Human Sexuality: An Encyclopedia'' - 1994 * ''Nursing Issues for the Nineties and Beyond'' - 1994 * ''How I Got Into Sex'' - 1997 * ''Gender Blending'' - 1997 * ''Contraception: A Guide to Birth Control Methods'' - 1997

References

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