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"Medical Caregiving and Identity in Pennsylvania's Anthracite Region, 1880-2000" was published by Pennsylvania State University Press in 2011 - University Park, Pa, it has 187 pages and the language of the book is English.


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  • Title: ➤  Medical Caregiving and Identity in Pennsylvania's Anthracite Region, 1880-2000
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  • Language: English
  • Number of Pages: 187
  • Publisher: ➤  Pennsylvania State University Press
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  • Publish Location: University Park, Pa

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  • Format: Hardcover
  • Weight: 15.2 ounces
  • Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1 inches
  • Pagination: 187 p. :

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"Medical Caregiving and Identity in Pennsylvania's Anthracite Region, 1880-2000" Table Of Contents:

  • 1- The anthracite coal region
  • 2- Professional medicine in the anthracite coal region
  • 3- Mothering through medicine : the neighborhood women
  • 4- Powwowers and Pennsylvania German medicine
  • 5- Miners, masculinity, and medical self-help
  • 6- Moving from traditional medicine to biomedicine.

"Medical Caregiving and Identity in Pennsylvania's Anthracite Region, 1880-2000" Description:

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"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.

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