Healing Appalachia

Author : Al Fritsch
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2007-05-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780813172170

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Healing Appalachia is a practical guide for environmentally conscious residents of Appalachia and beyond. It is also the first book to apply “appropriate technology,” or the most basic technology that can effectively achieve the desired result, to this specific region. Authors Al Fritsch and Paul Gallimore have performed over 200 environmental resource assessments in thirty-three states. They bring this knowledge to bear as they examine thirty low-cost, people-friendly, and environmentally benign appropriate technologies that can be put to work today in Appalachia. They discuss such issues as renewable energy and energy conservation, food preservation and gardening, forest management, land use, transportation, water conservation, proper waste disposal, and wildlife protection. They pay close attention to the practicality of each technique according to affordability, ease of use, and ecological soundness. Their subjects range from solar home heating to greenhouses, from aquaculture to compost toilets, from organic gardening to wildlife restoration and enhancement, and from solar cars to microhydropower facilities. Their discussions of each topic benefit from the knowledge gained from thirty years of practical experience at environmental demonstration centers and public interest and educational organizations. Each section of the book includes details on construction and maintenance, as well as resources for locating further information, making this an essential volume for everyone who cares about the future of Appalachia.

Author : Al Fritsch,Paul Gallimore
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2007-05-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780813139005

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Healing Appalachia by Al Fritsch,Paul Gallimore Pdf

Healing Appalachia is a practical guide for environmentally conscious residents of Appalachia and beyond. It is also the first book to apply "appropriate technology," or the most basic technology that can effectively achieve the desired result, to this specific region. Authors Al Fritsch and Paul Gallimore have performed over 200 environmental resource assessments in thirty-three states. They bring this knowledge to bear as they examine thirty low-cost, people-friendly, and environmentally benign appropriate technologies that can be put to work today in Appalachia. They discuss such issues as renewable energy and energy conservation, food preservation and gardening, forest management, land use, transportation, water conservation, proper waste disposal, and wildlife protection. They pay close attention to the practicality of each technique according to affordability, ease of use, and ecological soundness. Their subjects range from solar home heating to greenhouses, from aquaculture to compost toilets, from organic gardening to wildlife restoration and enhancement, and from solar cars to microhydropower facilities. Their discussions of each topic benefit from the knowledge gained from thirty years of practical experience at environmental demonstration centers and public interest and educational organizations. Each section of the book includes details on construction and maintenance, as well as resources for locating further information, making this an essential volume for everyone who cares about the future of Appalachia.

Author : Sandra Lee Barney
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2003-07-11
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780807860540

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Authorized to Heal by Sandra Lee Barney Pdf

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.

Author : Joyce M. Barry
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780821444108

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Standing Our Ground by Joyce M. Barry Pdf

Standing Our Ground: Women, Environmental Justice, and the Fight to End Mountaintop Removal examines women’s efforts to end mountaintop removal coal mining in West Virginia. Mountaintop removal coal mining, which involves demolishing the tops of hills and mountains to provide access to coal seams, is one of the most significant environmental threats in Appalachia, where it is most commonly practiced. The Appalachian women featured in Barry’s book have firsthand experience with the negative impacts of Big Coal in West Virginia. Through their work in organizations such as the Coal River Mountain Watch and the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, they fight to save their mountain communities by promoting the development of alternative energy resources. Barry’s engaging and original work reveals how women’s tireless organizing efforts have made mountaintop removal a global political and environmental issue and laid the groundwork for a robust environmental justice movement in central Appalachia.

Author : Albert J. Fritsch,Paul Gallimore
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007-05-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0813191777

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Healing Appalachia by Albert J. Fritsch,Paul Gallimore Pdf

Healing Appalachia is the first book to apply "appropriate technology," or the simplest level of technology that can effectively achieve the desired result, specifically to the Appalachian region. The authors examine thirty low-cost, people-friendly, and environmentally benign appropriate technologies that are concerned with such issues as food preservation, land use, shelter, and transportation. They pay close attention to the practicality of each technique according to affordability, ease of use, and ecological soundness. Details on construction and maintenance and resources for locating further information are included, making this an essential volume for everyone who cares about the future of Appalachia.

Author : Jake Richards
Publisher : Weiser Books
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781633412347

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Ossman & Steel's Classic Household Guide to Appalachian Folk Healing by Jake Richards Pdf

A long-treasured but forgotten classic of folk healing, with an introduction and commentary by the author of Backwoods Witchcraft and Doctoring the Devil. Ossman & Steel’s Guide to Health or Household Instructor (its original title) is a collection of spells, remedies, and charms. The book draws from the old Pennsylvania Dutch and German powwow healing practices that in turn helped shape Appalachian folk healing, conjure, rootwork, and many folk healing traditions in America. Jake Richards, author of Backwoods Witchcraft and Doctoring the Devil, puts these remedies in context, with practical advice for modern-day “backwoods” healers interested to use them today. The first part contains spells and charms for healing wounds, styes, broken bones, maladies, and illnesses of all sorts. The second part includes other folk remedies using ingredients based on sympathetic reasoning, including sulfuric acid, gunpowder, or other substances for swelling, toothache, headache, and so on. These remedies are presented here for historic interest, to help better understand how folk medicine evolved in America. It is Jake Richard’s hope that reintroducing this work will reestablish its position as a useful household helper in the library of every witch or country healer.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : American literature
ISBN : UVA:X030287953

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Appalachian Heritage by Anonim Pdf

Author : Arnold Krochmal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:24500196107

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A Guide to medicinal plants of Appalachia by Arnold Krochmal Pdf

Author : Phyllis D. Light
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-16
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781623171575

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Southern Folk Medicine by Phyllis D. Light Pdf

This practical and easy-to-understand guide to the plant wisdom of Southern and Appalachian folk medicine reveals the history and practices of this unique herbal tradition This book is the first to describe the history, folklore, assessment methods, and remedies of Southern and Appalachian Folk Medicine—the only system of folk medicine, other than Native American, that developed in the United States. One of the system's last active practitioners, Phyllis D. Light has studied and worked with herbs, foods, and other healing techniques for more than thirty years. In everyday language, she explains how Southern and Appalachian Folk Medicine was passed down orally through the generations by herbalists and healers who cared for people in their communities with the natural tools on hand. Drawing from Greek, Native American, African, and British sources, this uniquely American folk medicine combines what is useful and practical from many traditions to create an energetic system that is coherent and valuable today.

Author : Anthony P. Cavender
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : UOM:39015057603592

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Folk Medicine in Southern Appalachia by Anthony P. Cavender Pdf

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Author : Anonim
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02-13
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015078808030

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The Bibliography of Appalachia by Anonim Pdf

"This bibliography of books, articles, monographs, and dissertations features more than 4,700 entries, divided into twenty-four subject areas such as activism and protest; Appalachian studies; arts and crafts; community culture and folklife; education; environment; ethnicity, race and identity; health and medicine; media and stereotypes; recreation and tourism; religion; and women and gender. Two indexes conclude the bibliography"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Gerald Milnes
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 1572335777

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Signs, Cures, & Witchery by Gerald Milnes Pdf

The persecution of Old World German Protestants and Anabaptists in the seventeenth century--following debilitating wars, the Reformation, and the Inquisition-- brought about significant immigration to America. Many of the immigrants, and their progeny, settled in the Appalachian frontier. Here they established a particularly old set of religious beliefs and traditions based on a strong sense of folk spirituality. They practiced astrology, numerology, and other aspects of esoteric thinking and left a legacy that may still be found in Appalachian folklore today. Based in part on the author's extensive collection of oral histories from the remote highlands of West Virginia, Signs, Cures, and Witchery; German Appalachian Folklore describes these various occult practices, symbols, and beliefs; how they evolved within New World religious contexts; how they arrived on the Appalachian frontier; and the prospects of those beliefs continuing in the contemporary world. By concentrating on these inheritances, Gerald C. Milnes draws a larger picture of the German influence on Appalachia. Much has been written about the Anglo-Celtic, Scots-Irish, and English folkways of the Appalachian people, but few studies have addressed their German cultural attributes and sensibilities. Signs, Cures, and Witchery sheds startling light on folk influences from Germany, making it a volume of tremendous value to Appalachian scholars, folklorists, and readers with an interest in Appalachian folklife and German American studies.

Author : Peter Bennet Stone,Mountain Agenda (Organization)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015021577773

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The State of the World's Mountains by Peter Bennet Stone,Mountain Agenda (Organization) Pdf

Their global audit runs from China to Peru, from the Polish Tatra and the Scottish Highlands to the Alps and the great mountain chains of Asia, Africa and the Americas, as well as many lesser known ranges in the former Soviet Union, Japan, the Caribbean and elsewhere.

Author : Foxfire Fund, Inc.
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1972-02-17
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9780385073530

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The Foxfire Book by Foxfire Fund, Inc. Pdf

First published in 1972, The Foxfire Book was a surprise bestseller that brought Appalachia's philosophy of simple living to hundreds of thousands of readers. Whether you wanted to hunt game, bake the old-fashioned way, or learn the art of successful moonshining, The Foxfire Museum and Heritage Center had a contact who could teach you how with clear, step-by-step instructions. This classic debut volume of the acclaimed series covers a diverse array of crafts and practical skills, including log cabin building, hog dressing, basketmaking, cooking, fencemaking, crop planting, hunting, and moonshining, as well as a look at the history of local traditions like snake lore and faith healing.

Author : Mary Jo Dummer Clark
Publisher : McGraw-Hill/Appleton & Lange
Page : 1096 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Medical
ISBN : UOM:39015034505324

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Nursing in the Community by Mary Jo Dummer Clark Pdf

An introduction to aspects of community health nursing, from health promotion to care of existing illness, and from care of individuals and their families to care of population groups. The epidemiologic model of health policy analysis incorporates principles of public health science and the nursing process throughout the book. This model provides a structural approach for nursing students in applying the principles of both public health science and professional nursing to community health nursing practice.