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Author Wall, Barbra Mann

Title Unlikely entrepreneurs : Catholic sisters and the hospital marketplace, 1865-1925 / Barbra Mann Wall
Published Columbus : Ohio State University Press, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 267 pages :) : illustrations
Series Women, gender, and health
Women, gender, and health.
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 -- Religion, gender, and autonomy in 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Pastoral medicine -- Catholic Church -- History -- 20th century
Pastoral medicine -- Catholic Church -- History -- 19th century
Monasticism and religious orders for women -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Monasticism and religious orders for women -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Catholic hospitals -- United States -- Administration -- History -- 20th century
Catholic hospitals -- United States -- Administration -- History -- 19th century
Hospitals, Religious -- history
Hospitals, Religious -- economics
History, 20th Century
History, 19th Century
Catholicism
RELIGION / General
Catholic hospitals -- Administration
Monasticism and religious orders for women
Pastoral medicine -- Catholic Church
SUBJECT United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481
Subject United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2004030005
ISBN 9780814272947
0814272940