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- catalog abstract "Annotation 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, thegendered 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.".
- catalog contributor b11577393.
- catalog coverage "Kentucky.".
- catalog coverage "Virginia.".
- catalog coverage "West Virginia.".
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "Annotation 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, thegendered 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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-214) and index.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 222 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Authorized to heal.".
- catalog identifier "0807825220 (cl. : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0807848344 (pa. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Authorized to heal.".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press,".
- catalog relation "Authorized to heal.".
- catalog spatial "Appalachian Region".
- catalog spatial "Kentucky".
- catalog spatial "Kentucky.".
- catalog spatial "Virginia".
- catalog spatial "Virginia.".
- catalog spatial "West Virginia".
- catalog spatial "West Virginia.".
- catalog subject "2000 D-488".
- catalog subject "362.1/0974 21".
- catalog subject "History, 19th Century Kentucky.".
- catalog subject "History, 19th Century Virginia.".
- catalog subject "History, 19th Century West Virginia.".
- catalog subject "History, 19th Century.".
- catalog subject "History, 20th Century Kentucky.".
- catalog subject "History, 20th Century Virginia.".
- catalog subject "History, 20th Century West Virginia.".
- catalog subject "History, 20th Century.".
- catalog subject "Medicine Appalachian Region History.".
- catalog subject "Midwifery Kentucky History.".
- catalog subject "Midwifery Virginia History.".
- catalog subject "Midwifery West Virginia History.".
- catalog subject "Midwifery history.".
- catalog subject "Nurses Kentucky.".
- catalog subject "Nurses Virginia.".
- catalog subject "Nurses West Virginia.".
- catalog subject "Nurses.".
- catalog subject "Physicians, Women Kentucky.".
- catalog subject "Physicians, Women Virginia.".
- catalog subject "Physicians, Women West Virginia.".
- catalog subject "Physicians, Women.".
- catalog subject "R692 .B67 2000".
- catalog subject "WZ 70 AA6 B261a 2000".
- catalog subject "Women in medicine Appalachian Region History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "Authorized to heal : gender, class, and the transformation of medicine in Appalachia, 1880-1930 / Sandra Lee Barney.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".