Unlikely entrepreneurs
Subtitle: Catholic sisters and the hospital marketplace, 1865-1925
By: Barbra Mann Wall.
Series: Women, gender, and health
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Columbus
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
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.; Catholicism -- United States.; History, 19th Century -- United States.; History, 20th Century -- United States.; Hospitals, Religious -- economics -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Catholic sisters in the hospital marketplace: the genesis; title: "All the advantages of a religious life": religion, gender, and new public roles; title: "Not the traditional institution": Catholic sisters in the hospital marketplace, 1854-1880; title: "An institution for the community and not narrowly sectarian": Catholic hospitals, 1880-1925; title: "Debts are our only wealth": financing and marketing Catholic hospitals; title: Religion, gender, and autonomy in Catholic hospitals; title: "Our heels are praying very hard all day": nursing in Catholic hospitals; title: Power sharing: business negotiations in Catholic hospitals; title: Addressing the times: nuns and the standardization movement.