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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 / Karol K. Weaver.
ISBN
9780271048789 (cloth : acid-free paper)
0271048786 (cloth : acid-free paper)
Published
University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2011.
Physical Description
187 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 10, 2011
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.
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