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Authorized to heal : gender, class, and the transformation of medicine in Appalachia, 1880-1930 / Sandra Lee Barney.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Barney, Sandra.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Women in medicine--Appalachian Region--History.
Women in medicine.
Medicine--Appalachian Region--History.
Medicine.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (238 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2000.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
Authorized to Heal: Gender, Class, and the Transformation of Medicine in Appalachia, 1880-1930
Contents:
Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Bringing Modern Medicine to the Mountains; 2. Physicians and the Quest for Professional Identity; 3. What the Women's Clubs Can Do; 4. Women, Health Care, and the Community; 5. Limiting Public Health; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography
Notes:
Notes: P. 161-190.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-214) and index.
ISBN:
9798890867803
9780807860540
0807860549
OCLC:
476268349

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