Unpacking the black bag: Rural medicine in the Maritime provinces and northern New England states, 1900--1950.
Published: 2005
Language: eng
Number of pages: 359
ISBN-13: 9780494220672
Subjects: Medicine, Rural -- Canada -- Maritime provinces -- History.; Medicine, Rural -- United States -- New England -- History.
Description: This dissertation looks at the social transformation of rural medicine in the Maritime provinces of Canada and northern New England states between 1900 and 1950. It begins by examining the history of the country doctor as a cultural archetype in popular fiction, film, and television, and then looks at how rural physicians and their biographers responded to this archetype in life-writing. The response suggests that the archetypal country doctor is a kind of political embodiment of social anxieties about rural health care access in a period which saw the centralization of care, and the rise of specialties. ...
Notes: Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Toronto, 2005.

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