Who Shall Take Care of Our Sick?

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

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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

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

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Prominent Families of New York

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

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Guide to Reprints

Guide to Reprints
Title Guide to Reprints PDF eBook
Author
Publisher
Pages 920
Release 2005
Genre Editions
ISBN

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Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971

Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Title Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971 PDF eBook
Author New York Public Library. Research Libraries
Publisher
Pages 588
Release 1979
Genre Library catalogs
ISBN

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Film's First Family

Film's First Family
Title Film's First Family PDF eBook
Author Terry Chester Shulman
Publisher University Press of Kentucky
Pages 279
Release 2019-11-12
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 081317810X

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“A fascinating [and] beautifully written portrait of a tempestuous family that played a pivotal role in the development of American film” (Vanda Krefft, author of The Man Who Made the Movies). Adultery, secret marriages, divorce, custody battles, suicide attempts, alcoholism—the trials and tribulations of the Costellos were as riveting as any Hollywood feature film. Written with unprecedented access to the family’s personal documents and artifacts, and interviews with several family members, this riveting study explores the dramatic history of the Costellos and their significance to the stage and screen. This eccentric, tragic, yet talented clan was one of the twentieth century’s most accomplished families of actors—second only to the Barrymores, with whom they intermarried and begat a film dynasty riddled with jealousy, resentment, and heartbreak. Inevitably, the Costellos’ brilliant achievements would be eclipsed by their own immutable penchant for self-destruction. Patriarch Maurice “Dimples” Costello was considered the first screen idol until his career, marked by accusations of spousal abuse, drunkenness, and physical assault, abruptly ended. His daughter Dolores married John Barrymore, arguably the most famous man in Hollywood at the time, and their son would carry on the Barrymore name to successive generations of actors. Costello’s other daughter, Helene, was the first actress to star in an all-talking picture, The Lights of New York. However, her career was wracked by scandal in 1932 during her very public divorce from actor-director Lowell Sherman, who testified that his wife was a drunk and an avid reader of pornography. The original members of this pioneering family may be gone, but the name and legacy of the Costellos will live on through their accomplishments, films, and descendants—most notably, actress Drew Barrymore—and through this sweeping biography with “enough juicy material to have filled several volumes” (Leonard Maltin).

Creating Central Park

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

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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.