Medical Caregiving and Identity in Pennsylvania's Anthracite Region, 1880-2000 [Recurso electrónico] / Karol K. Weaver.
Tipo de material:
TextoSeries Book collections on Project MUSEDetalles de publicación: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2011. 2015)Descripción: 1 online resource (187 p. :) ill., mapsTipo de contenido: - texto
- con mediación
- online resource
- 9780271052298
- 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
- 610.9748
- R313 .W43 2011
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Libro Electrónico
"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.
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