Say little, do much : nurses, nuns, and hospitals in the nineteenth century / Sioban Nelson.

  • Nelson, Sioban.
Date:
[2001], ©2001
  • Books

About this work

Publication/Creation

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2001], ©2001.

Physical description

237 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Contributors

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".

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-225) and index.

Languages

Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    CBX.AA9
    Open shelves

Permanent link

Identifiers

ISBN

  • 0812236149
  • 0812217837