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

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Weaver, Karol K. (Karol Kimberlee)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Social Conditions > Pennsylvania.
History, 20th Century > Pennsylvania.
History, 19th Century > Pennsylvania.
Coal Mining > history > Pennsylvania.
Caregivers > history > Pennsylvania.
Medicine, Traditional > history > Pennsylvania.
Ethnicity > Pennsylvania > History.
Sex role > Pennsylvania > History.
Coal mines and mining > Social aspects > Pennsylvania > History.
Coal miners > Pennsylvania > Social conditions.
Traditional medicine > Pennsylvania > History.
Medical care > Pennsylvania > History.
Coal miners > Medical care > Pennsylvania > History.
Medicine > Pennsylvania > History > 20th century.
Medicine > Pennsylvania > History > 19th century.
Pennsylvania > Social conditions.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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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