Say Little, Do Much : : Nursing, Nuns, and Hospitals in the Nineteenth Century / / Sioban Nelson.

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• VerfasserIn: Nelson, Sioban,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2010]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Health, Illness, and Caregiving
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.) :; 8 illus.

In the nineteenth century, more than a third of American hospitals were established and run by women with religious vocations. In Say Little, Do Much, Sioban Nelson casts light on the work of these women's religious communities. According to Nelson, the popular view that nursing invented itself...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Chapter 1. "Say Little, Do Much"
• Chapter 2. Martha's Turn
• Chapter 3. Free Enterprise and Resourcefulness
• Chapter 4. Behind Enemy Lines
• Chapter 5. At the Margins of the Empire
• Chapter 6. Frontier: "The Means to Begin Are None"
• Chapter 7. Crossing the Confessional Divide
• Chapter 8. The Twentieth Century
• Abbreviations
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index
• Acknowledgments