Authorized to Heal: Gender, Class, and the Transformation of Medicine in Appalachia, 1880-1930Univ of North Carolina Press, 2000 - 222 páginas In this book, Sandra Barney examines the transformation of medical care in Central Appalachia during the Progressive Era and analyzes the influence of women volunteers in promoting the acceptance of professional medicine in the region. By highlighting the |
Contenido
Bringing Modern Medicine to the Mountains | 15 |
Physicians and the Quest for Professional Identity | 41 |
What the Womens Clubs Can Do | 71 |
Women Health Care and the Community | 100 |
Limiting Public Health | 122 |
CONCLUSION | 152 |
NOTES | 161 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 193 |
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activities allies American Medical Anne Firor Scott Appalachian physicians Babies birth Bluefield Board of Health campaign Central Appalachia cians clinics coal camps coalfields College of Virginia eastern Kentucky economic educated physicians elite families Federation of Women's female Frontier Nursing Service GFWC ginia graduated healers History Ibid industrial J. A. Stucky Ladd-Taylor lay midwives Leavitt licensing Linda Neville Logan County Mary Breckinridge McDowell County Medical Association Medical College medical education medical profession Medical Register middle-class midwifery midwives miners Mingo County Monongalia County Mother-Work mountain residents Mountain Settlement School nineteenth century organizations percent Pettit physi physicians Polk practitioners promote public health nurses Pudup Raleigh County Records region Report rural scientific medicine settlement workers Skocpol social sought tion trachoma traditional trained Transformation University of Louisville University Press Virginia State Medical West Virginia Federation West Virginia University women reformers Women's Auxiliary Women's Clubs WVMJ Yearbook
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