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

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

by Karol K. Weaver
Medical Caregiving and Identity in Pennsylvania's Anthracite Region, 1880-2000

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

by Karol K. Weaver

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Overview

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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780271048796
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Publication date: 11/15/2013
Pages: 200
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.55(d)

About the Author

Karol K. Weaver is Associate Professor of History at Susquehanna University.

Table of Contents

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 The Anthracite Coal Region

2 Professional Medicine in the Anthracite Coal Region

3 Mothering Through Medicine: The Neighborhood Women

4 Powwowers and Pennsylvania German Medicin

5 Miners, Masculinity, and Medical Self-Help

6 Moving from Traditional Medicine to Biomedicine

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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