Medical Caregiving and Identity in Pennsylvania's Anthracite Region, 1880-2000
By: Karol K. Weaver
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: University Park, Pa
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 187
ISBN-13: 9780271048789
Subjects: History; Traditional medicine; Medicine; Caregivers; Medical care; History, 19th Century; Sex role; Traditional Medicine; Social Conditions; Social conditions; Coal Mining; Coal mines and mining; Coal miners; Ethnicity; History, 20th Century
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The anthracite coal region; title: Professional medicine in the anthracite coal region; title: Mothering through medicine : the neighborhood women; title: Powwowers and Pennsylvania German medicine; title: Miners, masculinity, and medical self-help; title: Moving from traditional medicine to biomedicine.