| Description |
1 online resource (187 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Summary |
"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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Medicine -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 19th century.
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Medicine. |
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Pennsylvania. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Medicine -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 20th century.
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| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Coal miners -- Medical care -- Pennsylvania -- History.
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Coal miners -- Medical care. |
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Coal miners. |
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Medical care -- Pennsylvania -- History.
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Medical care. |
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Traditional medicine -- Pennsylvania -- History.
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Traditional medicine. |
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Coal miners -- Pennsylvania -- Social conditions.
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Social conditions. |
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Coal mines and mining -- Social aspects -- Pennsylvania -- History.
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Coal mines and mining -- Social aspects. |
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Coal mines and mining. |
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Sex role -- Pennsylvania -- History.
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Sex role. |
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Ethnicity -- Pennsylvania -- History.
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Ethnicity. |
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Pennsylvania -- Social conditions.
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Medicine, Traditional -- history. |
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Caregivers -- history. |
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Coal Mining -- history. |
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History, 19th Century. |
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History, 20th Century. |
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Social Conditions. |
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Pennsylvania. |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Subject |
Medical care. |
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Gender roles. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Weaver, Karol K. (Karol Kimberlee). Medical caregiving and identity in Pennsylvania's anthracite region, 1880-2000. University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2011 9780271048789 (DLC) 2011003077 (OCoLC)700930341 |
| ISBN |
9780271056821 (electronic book) |
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0271056827 (electronic book) |
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9780271055435 (electronic book) |
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027105543X (electronic book) |
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0271055952 |
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9780271055954 |
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9780271048789 |
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0271048786 |
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9780271055954 |
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