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Author Nelson, Sioban

Title Say little, do much : nurses, nuns, and hospitals in the nineteenth century / Sioban Nelson
Published Philadelphia [Pa.] : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2001

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Description 1 online resource (237 pages) : illustrations
Series Studies in health, illness, and caregiving
Studies in health, illness, and caregiving.
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Chapter 1. ""Say Little, Do Much"": Veils of Invisibility-Nursing Nuns; Chapter 2. Martha's Turn: Vowed Women and Virtuous Work; Chapter 3. Free Enterprise and Resourcefulness: An American Success Story-The Daughters of Charity in the Northeast; Chapter 4. Behind Enemy Lines: Religious Nursing in England-Conflicts and Solutions; Chapter 5. At the Margins of the Empire: Religious Wars in the Hospital Wards of Colonial Sydney; Chapter 6. Frontier: ""The Means to Begin Are None""
Chapter 7. Crossing the Confessional Divide: German Catholic and Protestant NursesChapter 8. The Twentieth Century: Every Day Life Got Smaller -- Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Acknowledgrnents
Summary "Nearly a half century before Florence Nightingale became a legendary figure for her pioneering work in the nursing trade, nursing nuns made significant but little-known accomplishments in the field. In fact, in the nineteenth century, more than 35 percent of American hospitals were created and run by women with religious vocations. In Say Little, Do Much, Sioban Nelson casts light upon the work of the nineteenth-century women's religious communities. It was they who organized and administered home, hospital, epidemic, and military nursing in America as well as Britain and Australia. According to Nelson, the popular view that nursing invented itself in the second half of the nineteenth century is historically inaccurate and dismissive of the major advances in the care of the sick as a serious and skilled activity, and activity that originated in seventeenth-century France with Vincent de Paul's Daughters of Charity."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-225) and index
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Subject Nursing -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Monastic and religious life of women.
Hospitals
Sisterhoods.
Caring -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Catholicism -- history
History of Nursing
History, 19th Century
Hospitals -- history
Women -- history
hospitals (institutions, health facility)
convents (groups)
MEDICAL -- History.
Caring -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Hospitals
Monastic and religious life of women
Nursing -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Sisterhoods
Krankenpflege
Christliche Ethik
Barmherzige Schwestern
Berufsbild
Frau
Ziekenhuizen.
Nonnen.
History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780812202908
0812202902
9780812236149
0812236149