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This well-documented volume will be a useful addition for collections supporting academic programs in public health, hospital administration, bioethics, and divinity, and for comprehensive collections in the history of medicine. Recommended.? ?Choice ?American Catholic Hospitals is fair, balanced, insightful, and intriguing. The story Wall tells?a story about a significant segment of the US health care system?is meticulously documented. Readers will find her study to be illuminating, even inspirational.? ?Journal of the American Medical Association ?In American Catholic Hospitals, Barbra Mann Hall traces the ways Catholic hospitals have accommodated changes both within the church and in society over the last century. Her book is well researched and a fascinating read.? ?Health Progress ?Wall presents a compelling and well-documented narrative of the dynamic transformation of Catholic hospitals in twentieth-century America. Drawing on records from Catholic congregations throughout the United States, she reveals an admirable perseverance of religious caregivers, demonstrated by their willingness to adapt to socioeconomic forces often inimical to charitable care.? ?American Catholic Studies ?American Catholic Hospitals is meticulously researched and well written. Although it is certainly appropriate for both undergraduate and graduate students, general readers also will find it to be an excellent overview of the history of the changes that Catholic health-care institutions have undergone in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.? ?Catholic Historical Review ?American Catholic Hospitals offers a tremendous amount of new material and refreshing perspectives on current health care system challenges in the United States.? ?Sioban Nelson, Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto ?Wall provides solid scholarship and engaging insight into the historic and contemporary contributions of American Catholic hospitals and their ability to adapt and serve amid the changing landscapes of church and state, culture wars, and healthcare reforms of the 20th century.? ?Carol K. 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