American Catholic hospitals [electronic resource] : a century of changing markets and missions / Barbra Mann Wall.

ISBN:

9780813551081

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Author:

Wall, Barbra Mann.

Personal Author:

Wall, Barbra Mann.

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Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 238 pages) : illustrations.

Series:

Critical issues in health and medicine

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."

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Subject Term:

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.

Geographic Term:

United States.

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Electronic Resources

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Publication Date:

2011

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Summary

In American Catholic Hospitals , Barbra Mann Wall chronicles changes in Catholic hospitals during the twentieth century, many of which are emblematic of trends in the American healthcare system.

Wall explores the Church's struggle to safeguard its religious values. As hospital leaders reacted to increased political, economic, and societal secularization, they extended their religious principles in the areas of universal health care and adherence to the Ethical and Religious Values in Catholic Hospitals, leading to tensions between the Church, government, and society. The book also examines the power of women--as administrators, Catholic sisters wielded significant authority--as well as the gender disparity in these institutions which came to be run, for the most part, by men. Wall also situates these critical transformations within the context of the changing Church policy during the 1960s. She undertakes unprecedented analyses of the gendered politics of post-Second Vatican Council Catholic hospitals, as well as the effect of social movements on the practice of medicine.

Author Notes

BARBRA MANN WALL is the Thomas A. Saunders III Professor in Nursing at the University of Virginia School of Nursing. Her book Unlikely Entrepreneurs: Catholic Sisters and the Hospital Marketplace, won the 2006 Lavinia Dock Award for Best Book, American Association for the History of Nursing.

Reviews (1)

Choice Review

Wall (Univ. of Pennsylvania) traces the nursing and management roles of nuns and brothers in church-related US health care institutions as advocates for social justice and Vatican-endorsed human reproduction principles. The time period covered is the mid-19th to the early-21st century. The societal factors that these religious personnel faced during this period included an increasingly secularized society, a church moving toward and then away from the ecumenism of Vatican Council II, and a laicized hospital staff and administration resulting from substantially fewer church vocations. This book's stated focus is to explain "how and why many religious influences remain prominent in the hospital marketplace." The author uses case studies of specific health care institutions to discuss unionization, the civil rights movement, hospital mergers, and federal medical insurance for the elderly and the indigent. This well-documented volume will be a useful addition for collections supporting academic programs in public health, hospital administration, bioethics, and divinity, and for comprehensive collections in the history of medicine. Includes extensive footnotes and an index, but no bibliography. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates and above; general readers. R. D. Arcari University of Connecticut School of Medicine