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Authorized to Heal - Gender, Class, and the Transformation of Medicine in Appalachia, 1880-1930 (Paperback, New edition)
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Authorized to Heal - Gender, Class, and the Transformation of Medicine in Appalachia, 1880-1930 (Paperback, New edition)
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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, the gendered 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. |Examines the
modernization of health care in Appalachia during the Progressive
Era and reveals the role women played in promoting the acceptance
of professional medicine in the region.
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