Medical caregiving and identity in Pennsylvania's anthracite region, 1880 - 2000
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.
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| Format: | UnknownFormat |
| Sprache: | eng |
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University Park, Pa.
Pennsylvania State Univ. Press
2011
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| Schlagworte: |
Medicine
> History
> Coal miners
> Medical care
> Traditional medicine
> Social conditions
> Coal mines and mining
> Social aspects
> Sex role
> Ethnicity
> Medicine, Traditional
> history
> Caregivers
> Coal Mining
> History, 19th Century
> History, 20th Century
> Social Conditions
> Pennsylvania
> Kohlenbergbau
> Gesundheitsfürsorge
> Geschichte
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | 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. "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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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | XI, 187 S. Ill., Kt. |
| ISBN: | 0271048786 0-271-04878-6 9780271048789 978-0-271-04878-9 |