Say little, do much [electronic resource] : nurses, nuns, and hospitals in the nineteenth century / Sioban Nelson
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- Nelson, Sioban
- Published
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2001.
- Physical Description
- 237 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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- 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".
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- 9780812236149 (cloth : alk. paper)
0812236149 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780812217834 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0812217837 (pbk. : alk. paper) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-225) and index.
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