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American Catholic Hospitals
InAmerican 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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Disasters, Nursing, and Community Responses: A Historical Perspective
Patients were constantly being admitted, and Fisher and her friend were told to \"pitch in,\" which they quickly did. Because the surgery area was well staffed, Fisher was particularly concerned about criti- cal cases that might be overlooked in the confusion, and she went around the room with extra blankets, hot water bags, and coffee for people in immediate danger. [...]the late 1980s, research on emergent phenomena in- cluded studies of physicians, nurses, firefighters, and other relief workers who \"remained the preferred approach to disaster management.\"
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Nurses and disasters
This timely volume describes and analyzes the nursing response to a variety of historic and recent global disasters that occurred between 1885 and 2012, including Hurricane Sandy. The book is unique in its discussion of cooperation and conflict in the disaster responses regarding the mobilization of individuals across national borders and continents. It examines how partnerships developed, their implications for policy, and how we can use lessons learned to improve care in the future. The book addresses such questions as: How did local, regional, and national communities mobilize for emergency care? What was the role of local nurses in emergency care after disasters? What was the role of the national or international Red Cross, local and federal governments, physicians, nurses, and other first responders? What was the impact of social attitudes and issues of race, class, and gender on the ways nurses and other health care professionals reacted to the disasters? How did unpreparedness for the type or scope of the disaster affect the response? The book will be of value to a wide variety of undergraduate and graduate students in nursing, social work, history, health policy, women's studies, public health, and urban studies.
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Nurses on the front line
This book examines how nurses have responded to natural and man-made disasters in the in the US and Canada over the course of the previous and current centuries. It identifies the care delivered during various disasters; explicates how nurses at the local level intersected with the American Red Cross (ARC), American Nurses Association (ANA), the U.S. Public Health Service, and other federal/state organizations; describes how this intersection changed over time; and analyzes how issues of race, class, and gender influenced the ways nurses and other health care professionals responded to disasters. In each disaster, the safeguards developed, such as urban fire departments and hospitals, were overwhelmed. At the same time, these disasters (see TOC) prompted health care workers, survivors, and civic and private organizations to reflect on the character and speed of responders as documented in letters, memoirs, oral histories, newspaper stories, and professional publications. This book, while asserting that nurses and other health care workers sought to restore stability in the aftermath of a chaotic event, also illustrates how such events can temporarily unravel stable gendered, social, racial, and geographical boundaries while informing and changing professional attitudes to, and standards of, practice.
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American Catholic Nursing. An Historical Analysis
This study analyzes the nursing activities of religious sister nurses as spiritual agents of care during wartime, in railroad and mining centers, and in cities in the United States in the 19th century. This is a story about the workings of religion, gender, social class, ethnicity, and nursing. The sisters’ work demonstrates how an analysis of professional nursing is incomplete without an understanding of the roles that a number of Catholic religious women took in reaching out to both Catholics and non-Catholics in the United States.
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Textual Analysis as a Method for Historians of Nursing
Similarly, social movements, individuals, speeches, diaries, and written histories all must be contextually situated.13 Just as we critically examine sources and place our own historical research in context, we can teach students in the classroom a form of critical reading and analysis of primary and secondary sources.14 Often used in cultural and media studies, textual analysis, according to Alan McKee, involves finding specific evidence to discern the author's purpose for writing; information about the author's personality and sociocultural context; the text's intended audience; the means by which the author attempts to influence that audience; and the time, place, and historical context of the writing. Frequent practice is needed in which the instructor provides detailed course handouts and models of how to summarize a plot, to determine the author's point of view or perspective (social class, background, importance of the issue to the author), and to analyze the document based on historical context.
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