Authorized to Heal
Subtitle: Gender, Class, and the Transformation of Medicine in Central Appalachia, 1880-1930
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: March 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780807825228
Subjects: History of medicine; Social history; Women's studies; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; Sociology Of Medicine; Community Health; Medical / Nursing; Medical; Northeastern & North Atlantic states; Women in medicine; Women's Studies - History; History; Appalachian Region; Medicine
First sentence: In the opening scene of Harriet Arnow's Appalachian classic, The Dollmaker, the heroine Gertie Nevels saves her young son's life by performing a rude tracheotomy on him with a pocketknife.