Medical Caregiving and Identity in Pennsylvania's Anthracite Region, 1880-2000

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Medical Caregiving and Identity in Pennsylvania's Anthracite Region, 1880-2000

Name: Medical Caregiving and Identity in Pennsylvania's Anthracite Region, 1880-2000
Brand: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
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By Karol K. Weaver
Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Release Date: July 12, 2011
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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.

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 The Anthracite Coal Region

2 Professional Medicine in the Anthracite Coal Region

3 Mothering Through Medicine: The Neighborhood Women

4 Powwowers and Pennsylvania German Medicin

5 Miners, Masculinity, and Medical Self-Help

6 Moving from Traditional Medicine to Biomedicine

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

“In Medical Caregiving and Identity in Pennsylvania’s Anthracite Region, 1880-2000, Karol Weaver skillfully weaves history and the lives of medical caregivers together within the context of policy, class, gender, and a transcultural society.”

—John C. Kirchgessner, Nursing History Review

Medical Caregiving and Identity in Pennsylvania's Anthracite Region, 1880-2000

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