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"Nearly a half century before Florence Nightingale became a legendary figure for her pioneering work in the nursing trade, nursing nuns made significant but little-known accomplishments in the field. In fact, in the nineteenth century, more than 35 percent of American hospitals were created and run by women with religious vocations. In Say Little, Do Much, Sioban Nelson casts light upon the work of the nineteenth-century women's religious communities.
It was they who organized and administered home, hospital, epidemic, and military nursing in America as well as Britain and Australia. According to Nelson, the popular view that nursing invented itself in the second half of the nineteenth century is historically inaccurate and dismissive of the major advances in the care of the sick as a serious and skilled activity, and activity that originated in seventeenth-century France with Vincent de Paul's Daughters of Charity."--BOOK JACKET.
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Caring, History of Nursing, Aspect religieux, Catholicism, Barmherzige Schwestern, Christianity, Berufsbild, Soins infirmiers, Hôpitaux, Christianisme, Nursing theory, Christliche Ethik, Nursing, Krankenpflege, Monachisme et ordres religieux féminins, Nonnen, Vie religieuse et monastique féminine, Humanité (Morale), Frau, History, 19th Century, Monastic and religious life of women, Ziekenhuizen, Sisterhoods, History, Hospitals, Women, Christian life, New York Times reviewed, Empathy, Religion and Medicine, Religious aspectsShowing 3 featured editions. View all 3 editions?
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Say Little, Do Much: Nursing, Nuns, and Hospitals in the Nineteenth Century
2013, University of Pennsylvania Press
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1283211882 9781283211888
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Say Little, Do Much: Nursing, Nuns, and Hospitals in the Nineteenth Century
2010, University of Pennsylvania Press
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0812202902 9780812202908
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Say Little, Do Much: Nursing, Nuns, and Hospitals in the Nineteenth Century (Studies in Health, Illness, and Caregiving)
September 2003, University of Pennsylvania Press
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0812217837 9780812217834
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"Some years ago at a North American nursing conference I delivered a paper on religious nurses and their impact on the nursing profession and the health care system."
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