Authorized to Heal: Gender, Class, and the Transformation of Medicine in Appalachia, 1880-1930 - Softcover

Barney, Sandra Lee

 
9780807848340: Authorized to Heal: Gender, Class, and the Transformation of Medicine in Appalachia, 1880-1930
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0807848344 ISBN 13: 9780807848340
Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

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 critical role played by nurses, clubwomen, ladies' auxiliaries, and other female constituencies in bringing modern medicine to the mountains, she fills a significant gap in gender and regional history.

Barney explores both the differences that divided women in the reform effort and the common ground that connected them to one another and to the male physicians who profited from their voluntary activity. Held together at first by a shared goal of improving the public welfare, the coalition between women volunteers and medical professionals began to fracture when the reform agendas of women's groups challenged physicians' sovereignty over the form of health care delivery. By examining the professionalization of male medical practitioners, the gendered nature of the campaign to promote their authority, and their displacement of community healers, especially female midwives, Barney uncovers some of the tensions that evolved within Appalachian society as the region was fundamentally reshaped during the era of industrial development.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Sandra Lee Barney is associate professor of history at Lock Haven University in Pennsylvania.

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Examines the modernization of health care in Appalachia during the Progressive Era and reveals the role women played in promoting the acceptance of professional medicine in the region.

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Examines the modernization of health care in Appalachia during the Progressive Era and reveals the role women played in promoting the acceptance of professional medicine in the region.

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Verlag
The University of North Carolina Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0807848344
ISBN 13 
9780807848340
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
230
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