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Author:

Wall, Barbra Mann. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2001145839

Title:

Unlikely entrepreneurs : Catholic sisters and the hospital marketplace, 1865-1925 / Barbra Mann Wall.

Publisher:

Ohio State University Press,

Copyright Date:

2005

Description:

xviii, 267 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Catholic hospitals--United States--History--History--19th century.
Catholic hospitals--United States--History--History--20th century.
Monasticism and religious orders for women--United States--History--19th century.
Monasticism and religious orders for women--United States--History--20th century.
Pastoral medicine--History--History--19th century.
Pastoral medicine--History--History--20th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-255) and index.

Contents:

Catholic sisters in the hospital marketplace: the genesis -- "All the advantages of a religious life": religion, gender, and new public roles -- "Not the traditional institution": Catholic sisters in the hospital marketplace, 1854-1880 -- "An institution for the community and not narrowly sectarian": Catholic hospitals, 1880-1925 -- "Debts are our only wealth": financing and marketing Catholic hospitals -- "Our heels are praying very hard all day": nursing in Catholic hospitals -- Power sharing: business negotiations in Catholic hospitals -- Addressing the times: nuns and the standardization movement.

Series:

Women, gender, and health

ISBN:

9780814209936
0814209939

OCLC:

(OCoLC)57316665

LCCN:

2004030005

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)