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American Catholic hospitals : a century of changing markets and missions

Title
American Catholic hospitals : a century of changing markets and missions / Barbra Mann Wall.
Author
Wall, Barbra Mann
Publication
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2011.

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Description
xv, 238 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Critical issues in health and medicine
Uniform Title
Critical issues in health and medicine.
Subject
  • Catholic hospitals > United States > History > 20th century
  • Catholic hospitals > United States > History > 21st century
  • Social change > United States > History > 20th century
  • Social change > United States > History > 21st century
  • Catholic hospitals > United States > Marketing > History
  • Catholic hospitals > Social aspects > History. > United States
  • Nuns > United States > History
  • Nursing > Religious aspects > History
  • Medical care > Religious aspects > Catholic Church > History
  • Hospitals, Religious > history
  • Catholicism > history
  • Social Change > history
  • Social Marketing
  • Religion and Medicine
  • History of Nursing
  • History, 20th Century
  • History, 21st Century
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
From sisters in habits to men in suits -- A "precarious" economic scene -- Religion, gender, and the public representation of Catholic hospitals -- Regardless of color, race, creed, or financial status -- Catholic hospitals and the federal government -- Harassed by strikes or threats of strikes -- Practical solutions to complicated problems -- "S" stands for "Sister," not "stupid."
ISBN
  • 9780813549408 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 081354940X (hardcover : alk. paper)
LCCN
2010017322
OCLC
  • ocn611964155
  • 611964155
  • SCSB-8860183
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries