Say Little, Do Much : Nursing, Nuns, and Hospitals in the Nineteenth Century.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Chapter 1. "Say Little, Do Much": Veils of Invisibility-Nursing Nuns -- Chapter 2. Martha's Turn: Vowed Women and Virtuous Work -- Chapter 3. Free Enterprise and Resourcefulness: An American Success Story-The Daughters of Charity in the Northeast -- Chapter 4. Behind Enemy Lines: Religious Nursing in England-Conflicts and Solutions -- Chapter 5. At the Margins of the Empire: Religious Wars in the Hospital Wards of Colonial Sydney -- Chapter 6. Frontier: "The Means to Begin Are None -- Chapter 7. Crossing the Confessional Divide: German Catholic and Protestant Nurses -- Chapter 8. The Twentieth Century: "Every Day Life Got Smaller -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Acknowledgrnents.

Nearly half a 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.

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