"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.
Uniform title
Medical caregiving and identity in Pennsylvania's anthracite region, 1880-2000 (Online)
Alternative title
Medical caregiving and identity in Pennsylvania's anthracite region, 1880-2000 (Online)
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.
Bibliography (note)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Author
Weaver, Karol K. (Karol Kimberlee)
Title
Medical caregiving and identity in Pennsylvania's anthracite region, 1880-2000 [electronic resource] / Karol K. Weaver.
Imprint
University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2011.