Who Shall Take Care of Our Sick?: Roman Catholic Sisters and the Development of Catholic Hospitals in New York City (Medicine, Science, and Religion in Historical Context)
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Who Shall Take Care of Our Sick?: Roman Catholic Sisters and the Development of Catholic Hospitals in New York City (Medicine, Science, and Religion in Historical Context)

Who Shall Take Care of Our Sick?: Roman Catholic Sisters and the Development of Catholic Hospitals in New York City (Medicine, Science, and Religion in Historical Context)

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Bernadette McCauley (Author)  

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This rich history chronicles the prominent role of Catholic women religious 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. Visionary sisters established, managed, and staffed the hospitals, and they sat on hospital boards and served as administrators at a time when women rarely occupied positions of leadership in business. McCauley illustrates how they at once embraced the world of God and the world of man, playing an unheralded role in the development of the modern hospital while serving the daily needs of New York's immigrant poor. Encompassing such issues as immigration, the education of nurses and doctors, hospital care and organization, and the role of women in the Catholic church, this extensive study is a valuable resource for scholars and students in the history of medicine, history of nursing, American religion, and women's history. 2 Line drawings, black and white; 9 Halftones, black and white CPSIA choking or other US hazard warning - No California Proposition 65 hazard warning necessary
Bernadette McCauley is an associate professor of history at Hunter College of the City University of New York.
  • Contributor: Bernadette McCauley
  • Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press
  • ISBN13: 9780801882166
  • Number of Pages: 160
  • Packaged Dimensions: 152x229x17mm
  • Packaged Weight: 363
  • Format: Hardback
  • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Release Date: 2005-12-23
  • Series: Medicine, Science, and Religion in Historical Context
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Biography: Bernadette McCauley is an associate professor of history at Hunter College of the City University of New York.

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