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American Catholic Hospitals: A Century of Changing Markets and Missions

American Catholic Hospitals: A Century of Changing Markets and Missions

Wall, Barbra Mann, PhD

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Series: Critical Issues in Health and Medicine (Hardcover)

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ISBN10: 081354940X
ISBN13: 9780813549408
Publisher: Rutgers Univ Pr
Pages: 260
Weight: 1.05
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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.

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