Item Detail
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32909
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English
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Deseret Hospital, Women, and the Perils of Modernization
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Utah Historical Quarterly
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April 2023
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91
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2
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Utah State Historical Society
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93-112
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"In general, historians shy away from studying failures. However, by studying a short-lived project like Deseret Hospital, we can see the underlying structures that have limited women’s achievements. This examination of why it failed (rather than simply celebrating the hospital’s establishment) reveals what actually hampered women from widening their sphere of influence in a modernizing America. During the 1870s, both Latter-day Saint and Catholic women attempted to respond to the needs of the sick, but only Catholic women were able to effectively negotiate the transformation from home-based to hospital-based medical care. The Sisters of the Holy Cross were successful because they had perfected a system that was well adapted to modern medical care, unlike the women who founded Deseret Hospital. This essay presents a critical history of Deseret Hospital and concludes by briefly comparing Catholic women’s efforts to those of the Latter-day Saints." [Author]
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