Medical Caregiving and Identity in Pennsylvania's Anthracite Region, 1880-2000 - Paperback

by Karol K. Weaver (Author)

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.

Author Biography

Karol K. Weaver is Associate Professor of History at Susquehanna University.