Unlikely Entrepreneurs : Catholic Sisters and the Hospital Marketplace, 1865-1925 /

Wall, Barbra Mann.

Unlikely Entrepreneurs : Catholic Sisters and the Hospital Marketplace, 1865-1925 / Barbra Mann Wall. - 1 online resource (267 pages): illustrations - Women, gender, and health . - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

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.

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Pastoral medicine--Catholic Church.
Monasticism and religious orders for women.
Catholic hospitals--Administration.
RELIGION / General
Medecine--Histoire--19e siecle.
Medecine--Histoire--20e siecle.
Hôpitaux catholiques--Administration--Histoire--États-Unis--19e siecle.
Hôpitaux catholiques--Administration--Histoire--États-Unis--20e siecle.
Monachisme et ordres religieux feminins--Histoire--États-Unis--19e siecle.
Monachisme et ordres religieux feminins--Histoire--États-Unis--20e siecle.
Medecine pastorale--Église catholique--Histoire--19e siecle.
Medecine pastorale--Église catholique--Histoire--20e siecle.
Catholicism
History, 19th Century
History, 20th Century
Hospitals, Religious--economics
Hospitals, Religious--history
Catholic hospitals--Administration--History--United States--19th century.
Catholic hospitals--Administration--History--United States--20th century.
Monasticism and religious orders for women--History--United States--19th century.
Monasticism and religious orders for women--History--United States--20th century.
Pastoral medicine--Catholic Church--History--19th century.
Pastoral medicine--Catholic Church--History--20th century.


United States.
United States


History.
Electronic books.