Unlikely Entrepreneurs: Catholic Sisters & the Hospital Marketplace, 1865-1925
(Part of the Women, Gender, and Health Series)
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In Unlikely Entrepreneurs, Barbra Mann Wall looks at the development of religious hospitals in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and the entrepreneurial influence Catholic sisters held in this process. When immigrant nuns came to the United States in the late nineteenth century, they encountered a market economy that structured the way they developed their hospitals. Sisters enthusiastically engaged in the market as entrepreneurs,...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0814209939
ISBN13:9780814209936
Release Date:May 2005
Publisher:Ohio State University Press
Length:288 Pages
Weight:1.19 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.4" x 9.2"
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