Who Shall Take Care of Our Sick?

Roman Catholic Sisters and the Development of Catholic Hospitals in New York City
Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-0-8018-8216-6
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 160 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 367 g

Reihe: Medicine, Science, and Religion in Historical Context

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McCauley, Bernadette

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Krankenhausmanagement, Praxismanagement
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte Regionalgeschichte der USA: Einzelne Staaten, Städte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Katholizismus, Römisch-Katholische Kirche
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. "A Climate New to Them": The Foundations
Chapter 2. "To Serve Both God and Man": The Sisters
Chapter 3. "Consoling Influences": Care and Treatment
Chapter 4. "Building in New York Is Very Expensive": Hospital Finances
Chapter 5. "Trust in God but Put Your Shoulder to the Wheel": Hospital Sisters and Modernization
Epilogue. "A Service So Dear"
Notes
Bibligraphy
Index

Über Autor(innen)

McCauley, Bernadette
Bernadette McCauley is an associate professor of history at Hunter College of the City University of New York.