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Title American Catholic hospitals : a century of changing markets and missions / Barbra Mann Wall.

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New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2011.

Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe 3rd Floor Stacks	362.110882 W154a 2011	---	Available

1 copy being processed for Axe Acquisitions Order.

Description	xv, 238 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Series	Critical issues in health and medicine
	Critical issues in health and medicine.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	From sisters in habits to men in suits -- A "precarious" economic scene -- Religion, gender, and the public representation of Catholic hospitals -- Regardless of color, race, creed, or financial status -- Catholic hospitals and the federal government -- Harassed by strikes or threats of strikes -- Practical solutions to complicated problems -- "S" stands for "Sister," not "stupid."
Subject	Catholic hospitals -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Catholic hospitals -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
	Social change -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Social change -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
	Catholic hospitals -- United States -- Marketing -- History.
	Catholic hospitals -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
	Nuns -- United States -- History.
	Nursing -- Religious aspects -- History.
	Medical care -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church -- History.
	Hospitals, Religious -- history -- United States.
	Catholicism -- history -- United States.
	History of Nursing -- United States.
	History, 20th Century -- United States.
	History, 21st Century -- United States.
	Religion and Medicine -- United States.
	Social Change -- history -- United States.
	Social Marketing -- United States.
ISBN	9780813549408 (hardcover : alk. paper)
	081354940X (hardcover : alk. paper)