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Say little, do much : nurses, nuns, and hospitals in the nineteenth century
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- Creator
- Sioban Nelson
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2001]
- ©2001
- Physical Details
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- 237 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0812202902, 0812236149, 9780812236149, 9780812217834, 9780812202908, 0812217837
- OCLC
- ocm46661835, ocn979622732, ocn759158248
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [213]-225) and index.
- "Say little, do much": veils of invisibility--nursing nuns -- Martha's turn: vowed women and virtuous work -- Free enterprise and resourcefulness: an American success story--the Daughters of Charity in the northeast -- Behind enemy lines: religious nursing in England--conflicts and solutions -- At the margins of the empire: religious wars in the hospital wards of colonial Sydney -- Frontier: "the means to begin are none" -- Crossing the confessional divide: German Catholic and Protestant nurses -- The twentieth century: "every day life got smaller"
Subjects
- Nursing -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
- Monastic and religious life of women.
- Hospitals.
- Sisterhoods.
- Caring -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
- Catholicism -- history.
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- History of Nursing.
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- History, 19th Century.
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- Hospitals -- history.
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- Women -- history.
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- Religion and Medicine.
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