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

  • Barney, Sandra.
Date:
[2000], ©2000
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Publication/Creation

Chapel Hill ; London : University of North Carolina Press, [2000], ©2000.

Physical description

xiii, 222 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

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Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-214) and index.

Contents

Ch. 1. Bringing modern medicine to the mountains -- Ch. 2. Physicians and the quest for professional identity -- Ch. 3. What the Women's Clubs can do -- Ch. 4. Women, health care, and the community -- Ch. 5. Limiting public health.

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    History of Medicine
    BW.U.66
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  • 0807825220
  • 0807848344