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Barbra Mann Wall

Barbra Mann Wall PhD, RN, FAAN

Nursing
Chancellorsville, Virginia, United States of America

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Barbra Mann Wall, PhD, RN, FAAN, who holds the Thomas A. Saunders III Professorship, focuses on the gendered story of hospital establishments and the nursing profession. Her award-winning book, Unlikely Entrepreneurs: Catholic Sisters and the Hospital Marketplace, 1865-1925 (Ohio State University Press, 2005), integrates history and nursing practice to inform how America’s two-tiered, public-private approach to health delivery serves a diverse American populace. Her second book, American Catholic Hospitals: A Century of Changing Markets and Missions (Rutgers University Press, 2011), analyzes the heretofore invisible role of Catholic sister nurses as leaders of the largest not-for-profit health care system in the US, noting tensions that developed as religious institutions attempted to directly shape health policies in a diverse milieu.
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