Who Shall Take Care of Our Sick?
Title | Who Shall Take Care of Our Sick? PDF eBook |
Author | Bernadette McCauley |
Publisher | JHU Press |
Pages | 161 |
Release | 2020-03-03 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 1421429365 |
This rich history chronicles the prominent role of Catholic women religious in establishing the hospitals at the core of New York City's extensive Catholic medical network. Beginning with the opening of St. Vincent's Hospital in 1849, Bernadette McCauley relates how determined and pragmatic women of faith worked over the next eighty years to place the Catholic Church in the mainstream of American medicine. Exploring the differences and similarities between Catholic hospitals and other hospitals, McCauley describes the particular cultural sensibility and management style that informed Catholic health care and gauges the ultimate success of Catholic efforts. Visionary sisters established, managed, and staffed the hospitals, and they sat on hospital boards and served as administrators at a time when women rarely occupied positions of leadership in business. McCauley illustrates how they at once embraced the world of God and the world of man, playing an unheralded role in the development of the modern hospital while serving the daily needs of New York's immigrant poor. Encompassing such issues as immigration, the education of nurses and doctors, hospital care and organization, and the role of women in the Catholic church, this extensive study is a valuable resource for scholars and students in the history of medicine, history of nursing, American religion, and women's history.
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Title | General Catalogue of Printed Books PDF eBook |
Author | British Museum. Department of Printed Books |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1138 |
Release | 1969 |
Genre | English imprints |
ISBN |
A History of Public Health
Title | A History of Public Health PDF eBook |
Author | George Rosen |
Publisher | JHU Press |
Pages | 441 |
Release | 2015-04 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 1421416018 |
For seasoned professionals as well as students, A History of Public Health is visionary and essential reading.
Prominent Families of New York
Title | Prominent Families of New York PDF eBook |
Author | Lyman Horace Weeks |
Publisher | |
Pages | 64 |
Release | 1898 |
Genre | New York (N.Y.) |
ISBN |
Guide to Reprints
Title | Guide to Reprints PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 920 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Editions |
ISBN |
History of Public Health in New York City, 1625-1866
Title | History of Public Health in New York City, 1625-1866 PDF eBook |
Author | John Duffy |
Publisher | Russell Sage Foundation |
Pages | 640 |
Release | 1968-10-15 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 1610441648 |
Traces the development of the sanitary and health problems of New York City from earliest Dutch times to the culmination of a nineteenth-century reform movement that produced the Metropolitan Health Act of 1866, the forerunner of the present New York City Department of Health. Professor Duffy shows the city's transition from a clean and healthy colonial settlement to an epidemic-ridden community in the eighteenth century, as the city outgrew its health and sanitation facilities. He describes the slow growth of a demand for adequate health laws in the mid-nineteenth century, leading to the establishment of the first permanent health agency in 1866.
Creating Central Park
Title | Creating Central Park PDF eBook |
Author | Morrison H. Heckscher |
Publisher | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Pages | 77 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Central Park (New York, N.Y.) |
ISBN | 0300136692 |
The year 2008 marks the 150th anniversary of the design of Central Park, the first and arguably the most famous of America’s urban landscape parks. In October 1857 the new park’s board of commissioners announced a public design competition, and the following April the imaginative yet practicable "Greensward” plan submitted by Calvert Vaux and Frederick Law Olmsted was selected. This book tells the fascinating story of how an extraordinary work of public art emerged from the crucible of New York City politics. From William Cullen Bryant’s 1844 editorial calling for "a pleasure ground of shade and recreation” to the completion of construction in 1870, the history of Central Park is an urban epic--a tale not only of animosity, political intrigue, and desire but also of idealism, sacrifice, and genius.