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Author Nelson, Sioban.

Title Say little, do much : nurses, nuns, and hospitals in the nineteenth century / Sioban Nelson.

Publication Info. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2001]
©2001

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  610.7309 N431S    Check Shelf
Description 237 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series Studies in health, illness, and caregiving
Studies in health, illness, and caregiving.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [213]-225) and index.
Contents "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".
Subject Nursing -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Monastic and religious life of women.
Hospitals.
Sisterhoods.
Caring -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Catholicism -- history.
History of Nursing.
History, 19th Century.
Hospitals -- history.
Women -- history.
ISBN 0812236149 cloth alkaline paper
0812217837 paperback alkaline paper
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