Religion, Medicine, and Politics

Catholic Physicians' Guilds in America,1909–32

Bibliographic Data

ID15026535
AuthorsJessica Martucci (0000-0002-0538-2373, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume92
Issue2
Pages287-316
Publication date2018-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueBulletin of the history of medicine (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0007-5140 • E-ISSN: 1086-3176
PublisherProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/bhm.2018.0028
PMID29961716
OpenAlexW2810560681
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited8

In 1909 the first Catholic physicians' guild formed in New York City. By 1911 guilds could be found in Philadelphia and Boston. They acted as professional organizations as well as brotherhoods built on a set of shared religious and moral convictions. They brought moral perspectives from Catholic doctrine into critical conversation with their medical work. By 1931, enough enthusiasm existed to form the National Federation of Catholic Physicians' Guilds (NFCPG). The creation of NFCPG marked a clear effort to insert Catholic values into America's health care debates. Focusing on the Philadelphia and Boston guilds, and with the use of archival collections at the Boston and Philadelphia archdioceses, this article examines the origins of the guild movement. Over the first several decades of their existence the guilds became an increasingly politically savvy force in American health care as they worked to influence local, state, and federal health policies surrounding women's health care

Conversation · Doctrine · Enthusiasm · Guild · Health care · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science) · Theology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Catholicism and Religious Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Law

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