Pioneer healers
Subtitle: the history of women religious in American health care
By: edited by Ursula Stepsis and Dolores Liptak.
Contributors: Stepsis, M. Ursula.; Liptak, Dolores Ann.
Publisher: Crossroad
Published: 1989
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
Subjects: Monasticism and religious orders for women -- United States -- History.; Medical care -- United States -- History.; Church work with the sick -- United States -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.
Table of contents: title: Women religious in health care, the early years / Carlan Kraman; title: In times of war / Judith Metz; title: In times of epidemic / Duncan Neuhauser; title: In times of immigration / Judith G. Cetina; title: In times of socioeconomic crisis / Edna Marie LeRoux; title: the transition years / Mary Carol Conroy; title: Toward the twenty-first century / Margaret John Kelly.