Research Catalog

Title

Who shall take care of our sick? : Roman Catholic sisters and the development of Catholic hospitals in New York City / Bernadette Mccauley.

Author

McCauley, Bernadette.

Publication

Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.

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Description

xiii, 146 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"This history chronicles the prominent role of Catholic women in establishing the hospitals at the core of New York City's extensive Catholic medical network. Beginning with the opening of St. Vincent's Hospital in 1849, Bernadette McCauley relates how determined and pragmatic women of faith worked over the next eighty years to place the Catholic Church in the mainstream of American medicine." "Exploring the differences and similarities between Catholic hospitals and other hospitals, McCauley describes the particular cultural sensibility and management style that informed Catholic health care and gauges the ultimate success of Catholic efforts."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Medicine, science, and religion in historical context

Uniform Title

Medicine, science, and religion in historical context.

Subject

• Catholic hospitals > New York > History
• Hospitals, Religious > history
• Catholicism
• New York (N.Y.)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 97-140) and index.

Contents

Ch. 1. "A climate new to them" : the foundations -- Ch. 2. "To serve both God and man" : the sisters -- Ch. 3. "Consoling influences" : care and treatment -- Ch. 4. "Building in New York is very expensive" : hospital finances -- Ch. 5. "Trust in God but put your shoulder to the wheel" : hospital sisters and modernization -- Epilogue : "a service so dear"

ISBN

0801882168 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

2005000735

OCLC

• OCM57422214
• SCSB-5218875

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries