Say Little, Do Much Nursing, Nuns, and Hospitals in the Nineteenth Century Sioban Nelson "A convincing picture."--New York Times "A convincing picture."--New York Times "The most significant contribution to the literature on nursing history in decades."--Journal of Community Nursing "Required reading for all nurse historians who seek to understand the difficult and complex role of religious women who served nursing prior to our modern era."--Nursing History Review "Well-researched, scholarly, clearly written, and nicely analyzed, this work makes a significant addition to the historiography of nursing."--Choice In the nineteenth century, more than a third of American hospitals were established and run by women with religious vocations. In Say Little, Do Much, Sioban Nelson casts light on the work of these women"s religious communities. According to Nelson, the popular view that nursing invented itself in the second half of the nineteenth century is historically inaccurate and...