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Unlikely entrepreneurs : Catholic sisters and the hospital marketplace, 1865-1925
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- Creator
- Barbra Mann Wall
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [2005]
- ©2005
- Series
- Physical Details
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- xviii, 267 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780814209936, 0814209939
- OCLC
- ocm57316665
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-255) and index.
- 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
Subjects
- Catholic hospitals -- United States -- Administration -- History -- 19th century.
- Catholic hospitals -- United States -- Administration -- 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 -- Catholic Church -- History -- 19th century.
- Pastoral medicine -- Catholic Church -- History -- 20th century.
- Hospitals, Religious -- history -- United States.
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- Catholicism -- United States.
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- History, 19th Century -- United States.
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- History, 20th Century -- United States.
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- Hospitals, Religious -- economics -- United States.
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