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Medical caregiving and identity in Pennsylvania's anthracite region, 1880-2000
Title
Medical caregiving and identity in Pennsylvania's anthracite region, 1880-2000 [electronic resource] / Karol K. Weaver.
ISBN
9780271052298
0271048786 (cloth : acid-free paper)
9780271048789 (cloth : acid-free paper)
Published
University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2011. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012)
Physical Description
1 online resource (187 p. :) ill., maps ;
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Description based on print version record.
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Summary
"Examines folk songs, patent medicine advertisements, oral history interviews, ghost stories, and jokes to show how over the course of the twentieth century the men and women of the anthracite coal region of Pennsylvania crafted their gender and ethnic identities via the medical decisions they made"--Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - UPCC 2010-2012 Current Complete Collection Bundle.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2011 Current Complete Collection.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2011 U.S. Regional Studies Collection.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 31, 2012
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The anthracite coal region
Professional medicine in the anthracite coal region
Mothering through medicine : the neighborhood women
Powwowers and Pennsylvania German medicine
Miners, masculinity, and medical self-help
Moving from traditional medicine to biomedicine.
Subjects
Subjects (Medical)
History, 19th Century - Pennsylvania.
History, 20th Century - Pennsylvania.
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Project Muse.
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