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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1. Verfasser: Weaver, Karol Kimberlee (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: University Park, Pa. Pennsylvania State Univ. Press 2011
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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
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:XI, 187 S.
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ISBN:0271048786
0-271-04878-6
9780271048789
978-0-271-04878-9