American Catholic Hospitals: A Century of Changing Markets and Missions

About the Author, Further Reading

Barbra Mann Wall, PhD, RN, FAAN, is an associate professor of nursing and the associate director of the Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania. She received her BS in nursing from the University of Texas at Austin, her MS in nursing from Texas Woman’s University, and her PhD in history from the University of Notre Dame. Her extensive body of work, which includes award-winning books, manuscripts, and presentations around the globe, has helped stimulate debates on the health care policy of many countries pertinent to the role and interactions of government with religious and secular enterprises. About the Author Available titles in the Critical Issues in Health and Medicine series: Emily K. Abel, Suffering in the Land of Sunshine: A Los Angeles Illness Narrative Emily K. Abel,Tuberculosis and the Politics of Exclusion: A History of Public Health and Migration to Los Angeles Marilyn Aguirre-Molina, Luisa N. Borrell, and William Vega, eds. Health Issues in Latino Males: A Social and Structural Approach Susan M. Chambré, Fighting for Our Lives: NewYork’s AIDS Community and the Politics of Disease James Colgrove, Gerald Markowitz, and David Rosner, eds.,The Contested Boundaries of American Public Health Cynthia A. Connolly, Saving Sickly Children:TheTuberculosis Preventorium in American Life, 1909–1970 Edward J. Eckenfels, Doctors Serving People: Restoring Humanism to Medicine through Student Community Service Julie Fairman, Making Room in the Clinic: Nurse Practitioners and the Evolution of Modern Health Care Jill A. Fisher, Medical Research for Hire:The Political Economy of Pharmaceutical ClinicalTrials Gerald N. Grob and Howard H. Goldman,The Dilemma of Federal Mental Health Policy: Radical Reform or Incremental Change? Gerald N. Grob and Allan V. Horwitz, Diagnosis,Therapy, and Evidence: Conundrums in Modern American Medicine Laura D. Hirshbein, American Melancholy: Constructions of Depression in the Twentieth Century Timothy Hoff, Practice under Pressure: Primary Care Physicians andTheir Medicine in theTwenty-first Century Rebecca M. Kluchin, Fit to BeTied: Sterilization and Reproductive Rights in America, 1950–1980 Jennifer Lisa Koslow, Cultivating Health: Los Angeles Women and Public Health Reform Bonnie Lefkowitz, Community Health Centers: A Movement and the People Who Made It Happen Ellen Leopold, Under the Radar: Cancer and the Cold War Barbara L. Ley, From Pink to Green: Disease Prevention and the Environmental Breast Cancer movement David Mechanic,TheTruth about Health Care: Why Reform Is Not Working in America Alyssa Picard, Making the American Mouth: Dentists and Public Health in the Twentieth Century David J. Rothman and David Blumenthal, Medical Professionalism in the New Information Age Karen Seccombe and Kim A. Hoffman, Just Don’t Get Sick: Access to Health Care in the Aftermath of Welfare Reform Leo B. Slater, War and Disease: Biomedical Research on Malaria in the Twentieth Century Rosemary A. Stevens, Charles E. Rosenberg, and Lawton R. Burns, eds., History and Health Policy in the United States: Putting the Past Back In Barbra Mann Wall, American Catholic Hospitals: A Century of Changing Markets and Missions ...