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

Weaver, Karol K.

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ISBN 10 : 0271048786 ISBN 13 : 9780271048789

Editeur : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2011

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

While much has been written about immigrant traditions, music, food culture, folklore, and other aspects of ethnic identity, little attention has been given to the study of medical culture, until now. In Medical Caregiving and Identity in Pennsylvanias Anthracite Region, 18802000, Karol Weaver employs an impressive range of primary sources, including folk songs, patent medicine advertisements, oral history interviews, ghost stories, and jokes, to show how the men and women of the anthracite coal region crafted their gender and ethnic identities via the medical decisions they made. Weaver examines communities relationships with both biomedically trained physicians and informally trained medical caregivers, and how these relationships reflected a sense of Americanness. She uses interviews and oral histories to help tell the story of neighbourhood healers, midwives, Pennsylvania German powwowers, medical self-help, and the eventual transition to modern-day medicine. Weaver is able to show not only how each of these methods of healing was shaped by its patrons and their backgrounds but also how it helped mould the identities of the new Americans who sought it out.

Biographie de l'auteur :

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

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Pennsylvania State University Press
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0271048786
• ISBN 13: 9780271048789
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 200