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

Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2000

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 222 pages) : illustrations 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 Summary In this text, the author 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 Notes Notes: P. 161-190 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-214) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Women in medicine -- Appalachian Region -- History Medicine -- Appalachian Region -- History Women physicians. History, 19th Century History, 20th Century Midwifery -- history Nurses Physicians, Women nurses. physicians. HEALTH & FITNESS -- Health Care Issues. MEDICAL -- Public Health. MEDICAL -- Health Policy. HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General. MEDICAL -- Diseases. MEDICAL -- Health Care Delivery. Women physicians Medicine Women in medicine SUBJECT Kentucky https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D007629 Virginia https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014768 West Virginia https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014903 Subject Appalachian Region Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 0807860549 9780807860540

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