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By Susan Hudson

The e-book acknowledges the achievements via a nineteenth-century neighborhood of ladies non secular, the gray Nuns of Lewiston, Maine. The founding in their medical institution was once major in its time because the first medical institution in that manufacturing unit urban; and is important this present day if one wants a extra exact and inclusive heritage of girls and healthcare in the US. the truth that this group lived in a adverse, Protestant-dominated, business atmosphere whereas submerged in a French-Canadian Catholic international of ethnicity, culture and paternalism makes their accomplishments extra compelling.

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