Ministry & Meaning: A Religious History of Catholic Health Care in the United States

by Martin E. Marty and Christopher J. Kauffman

This is the first comprehensive study to explore the religious self-understanding of caregivers, particularly women religious whose ministry was manifested in public and private facilities, in times of epidemics and war, in cities and on the frontier, in railroad and mining-camp hospitals.

With an emphasis upon their contexts Christopher J. Kauffman scrutinizes such historical spheres as the history of medicine, religious pluralism, ethnicity,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824514599
• ISBN13: 9780824514594
• Release Date: May 1995
• Publisher: Herder & Herder
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"