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Unlikely entrepreneurs [electronic resource] : Catholic sisters and the hospital marketplace, 1865-1925 / Barbra Mann Wall

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Wall, Barbra Mann
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Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2005.
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xviii, 267 p. : ill., ports
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Catholic sisters in the hospital marketplace: the genesis -- "All the advantages of a religious life": religion, gender, and new public roles -- "Not the traditional institution": Catholic sisters in the hospital marketplace, 1854-1880 -- "An institution for the community and not narrowly sectarian": Catholic hospitals, 1880-1925 -- "Debts are our only wealth": financing and marketing Catholic hospitals -- "Our heels are praying very hard all day": nursing in Catholic hospitals -- Power sharing: business negotiations in Catholic hospitals -- Addressing the times: nuns and the standardization movement.
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9780814209936 (cloth : alk. paper)
0814209939 (cloth : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-255) and index.
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