Medical Caregiving And Identity In Pennsylvania S Anthracite Region 1880 2000

Author : Karol K. Weaver
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780271068176

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Medical Caregiving and Identity in Pennsylvania's Anthracite Region, 1880–2000 by Karol K. Weaver Pdf

While much has been written about immigrant traditions, music, food culture, folklore, and other aspects of ethnic identity, little attention has been given to the study of medical culture, until now. In Medical Caregiving and Identity in Pennsylvania’s Anthracite Region, 1880–2000, Karol Weaver employs an impressive range of primary sources, including folk songs, patent medicine advertisements, oral history interviews, ghost stories, and jokes, to show how the men and women of the anthracite coal region crafted their gender and ethnic identities via the medical decisions they made. Weaver examines communities’ relationships with both biomedically trained physicians and informally trained medical caregivers, and how these relationships reflected a sense of “Americanness.” She uses interviews and oral histories to help tell the story of neighborhood healers, midwives, Pennsylvania German powwowers, medical self-help, and the eventual transition to modern-day medicine. Weaver is able to show not only how each of these methods of healing was shaped by its patrons and their backgrounds but also how it helped mold the identities of the new Americans who sought it out.

Author : Karol Kimberlee Weaver
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Coal miners
ISBN : 0271052295

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Medical Caregiving and Identity in Pennsylvania's Anthracite Region, 1880-2000 by Karol Kimberlee Weaver Pdf

Author : Karol Kimberlee Weaver
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Coal miners
ISBN : 027105543X

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Medical Caregiving and Identity in Pennsylvania's Anthracite Region, 1880-2000 by Karol Kimberlee Weaver Pdf

"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"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Karol K. Weaver
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780271056821

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Medical Caregiving and Identity in Pennsylvania's Anthracite Region, 1880–2000 by Karol K. Weaver Pdf

While much has been written about immigrant traditions, music, food culture, folklore, and other aspects of ethnic identity, little attention has been given to the study of medical culture, until now. In Medical Caregiving and Identity in Pennsylvania’s Anthracite Region, 1880–2000, Karol Weaver employs an impressive range of primary sources, including folk songs, patent medicine advertisements, oral history interviews, ghost stories, and jokes, to show how the men and women of the anthracite coal region crafted their gender and ethnic identities via the medical decisions they made. Weaver examines communities’ relationships with both biomedically trained physicians and informally trained medical caregivers, and how these relationships reflected a sense of “Americanness.” She uses interviews and oral histories to help tell the story of neighborhood healers, midwives, Pennsylvania German powwowers, medical self-help, and the eventual transition to modern-day medicine. Weaver is able to show not only how each of these methods of healing was shaped by its patrons and their backgrounds but also how it helped mold the identities of the new Americans who sought it out.

Author : Alexandra Coțofană
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781805391760

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The Familial Occult by Alexandra Coțofană Pdf

The Familial Occult addresses the presence of occult experiences in some scholars' families and how that has affected their epistemological and ontological worlds, as well as their identities as scholars. Those with backgrounds in the familial occult often experience a series of conflicting relationships and different ways of interacting with binaries such as the subjective and objective, a powerful conceptual couple still governing academic thinking. While much has been written on encountering the occult in fieldwork or becoming an apprentice in an occult practice, little yet has been published in the academic literature about growing up with the occult.

Author : Robert P. Wolensky
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780271086514

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Sewn in Coal Country by Robert P. Wolensky Pdf

By the mid-1930s, Pennsylvania’s anthracite coal industry was facing a steady decline. Mining areas such as the Wyoming Valley around the cities of Wilkes-Barre and Pittston were full of willing workers (including women) who proved irresistibly attractive to New York City’s “runaway shops”—ladies’ apparel factories seeking lower labor and other costs. The International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union (ILGWU) soon followed, and the Valley became a thriving hub of clothing production and union activity. This volume tells the story of the area’s apparel industry through the voices of men and women who lived it. Drawing from an archive of over sixty audio-recorded interviews within the Northeastern Pennsylvania Oral and Life History Collection, Sewn in Coal Country showcases sixteen stories told by workers, shop owners, union leaders, and others. The interview subjects recount the ILGWU-led movement to organize the shops, the conflicts between the district union and the national office in New York, the solidarity unionism approach of leader Min Matheson, the role of organized crime within the business, and the failed efforts to save the industry in the 1980s and 1990s. Robert P. Wolensky places the narratives in the larger context of American clothing manufacturing during the period and highlights their broader implications for the study of labor, gender, the working class, and oral history. Highly readable and thoroughly enlightening, this significant contribution to the study of labor history and women’s history will appeal to anyone interested in the relationships among workers, unions, management, and community; the effects of economic change on an area and its residents; the role of organized crime within the industry; and Pennsylvania history—especially the social history of industrialization and deindustrialization during the twentieth century.

Author : Karla Apperloo-Boersma,Herman J. Selderhuis,Siegrid Westphal,Christopher B. Brown,Günter Frank,Bruce Gordon,Barbara Mahlmann-Bauer,Tarald Rasmussen,Violet Soen,Zsombor Tóth,Günther Wassilowsky
Publisher : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783647570969

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More than Luther: by Karla Apperloo-Boersma,Herman J. Selderhuis,Siegrid Westphal,Christopher B. Brown,Günter Frank,Bruce Gordon,Barbara Mahlmann-Bauer,Tarald Rasmussen,Violet Soen,Zsombor Tóth,Günther Wassilowsky Pdf

This volume contains the plenary papers and a selection of shortpapers from the Seventh Annual RefoRC conference, which was held May 10–12th 2017 in Wittenberg. The contributions concentrate on the effects of Luther ́s new theology and draw the lines from Luther ́s contemporaries into the early seventeenth century. Developments in art, catholic responses and Calvinistic reception are only some of the topics. The volume reflects the interdisciplinarity and interconfessionality that characterizes present research on the 16th century reformations and underlines the fact that this research has not come to a conclusion in 2017. The papers in this conference volume point to lacunae and will certainly stimulate further research. Contributors: Wim François, Antonio Gerace, Siegrid Westphal, Edit Szegedi, Maria Lucia Weigel, Graeme Chatfield, Jane Schatkin Hettrick, Marta Quatrale, Aurelio A. García, Jeannette Kreijkes, Csilla Gábor, Gábor Ittzés, Balázs Dávid Magyar, Tomoji Odori, Gregory Soderberg, Herman A. Speelman, Izabela Winiarska-Górska, Erik A. de Boer, Donald Sinnema, Dolf te Velde.

Author : William A. Blair
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469615998

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Journal of the Civil War Era by William A. Blair Pdf

The Journal of the Civil War Era Volume 4, Number 3, September 2014 TABLE OF CONTENTS Editor's Note, William Blair Articles Felicity Turner Rights and the Ambiguities of Law: Infanticide in the Nineteenth-Century U.S. South Paul Quigley Civil War Conscription and the International Boundaries of Citizenship Jay Sexton William H. Seward in the World Review Essay Patick J. Kelly the European Revolutions of 1848 and the Transnational turn in Civil War History Book Reviews Books Received Notes on Contributors

Author : Patrick J. Donmoyer
Publisher : Masthof Press & Pennsylvania German Cultural Heritage Center, Kutztown University
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780998707433

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Powwowing in Pennsylvania by Patrick J. Donmoyer Pdf

This cultural exploration offers an unparalleled presentation of Pennsylvania’s ritual healing traditions known as powwowing or Braucherei in Pennsylvania Dutch, through original primary source materials, including manuscripts, ritual objects, and books—most of which have never before been available to English-speaking readers. Although methods and procedures have varied considerably over three centuries of ritual practice within the Pennsylvania Dutch cultural region, the outcomes and experiences surrounding this tradition have woven a rich tapestry of cultural narratives that highlight the integration of ritual into all aspects of life, as well as provide insight into the challenges, conflicts, growth, and development of a distinct Pennsylvania Dutch folk culture. Volume IV of the Annual Publication Series of the Pennsylvania German Cultural Heritage Center at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania.

Author : Faculty Awards
Publisher : River Publishers
Page : 777 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9788793379008

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2015 U.S. Higher Education Faculty Awards, Vol. 1 by Faculty Awards Pdf

FacultyAwards.org is the first and only university awards program in the United States based on faculty peer evaluation. Faculty Awards was created to recognize outstanding faculty members (as viewed by their Faculty peers) at colleges and universities across the United States. Faculty members voted through the 2014-2015 academic year for their peers at their academic departments and schools within a number of categories. Access to FacultyAwards.org to nominate and vote for Faculty was limited to university professors or faculty members at accredited U.S. institution of higher education. Faculty members were nominated and voted for by other faculty members in their own academic departments and schools. We strove to maintain an accurate peer-review process. Voting was not open to students or the public at large. In addition, faculty members voted for educators only at their own college or university. Winners for the 2014-2015 academic year, in all departments and colleges across U.S. institutions of higher education were announced in March 2015 and are permanently archived at FacultyAwards.org, as well as recognized in this 2015 print edition of the Faculty Awards Compendium. For the academic year 2014-2015 votes were cast to nominate and vote for Faculty members, and no self-voting was allowed, to assure the integrity of the whole process. This volume of the Faculty Awards Compendium includes Faculty awardees within Fine Arts, Humanities, Liberal Arts and Social Sciences Disciplines for the 2014-2015 academic year. A total of 1608 winning Faculty members in 584 higher education institutions were determined after tallying the votes. We would like to thank all Faculty members who participated in the voting process and to wish all the Faculty awardees continued success in their academic endeavors. We look forward to resuming the voting process for the 2015-2016 academic year awards.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 778 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : UCSD:31822037943248

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The Writers Directory by Anonim Pdf

Author : Karol Kimberlee Weaver
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Black people
ISBN : 9780252073212

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Medical Revolutionaries by Karol Kimberlee Weaver Pdf

'Medical Revolutionaries' highlights how slave healers inspired the Haitian Revolution, toppled the slave system, and led to the loss of France's most productive New World economy.

Author : Kevin M. Schultz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199987542

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Tri-Faith America by Kevin M. Schultz Pdf

In Tri-Faith America, Kevin Schultz explains how the United States left behind the idea that it was "a Protestant nation" and embraced the notion that Protestants, Catholics, and Jews were "Americans all." Schultz describes how the tri-faith idea surfaced after World War I and how, by the end of World War II, the idea was becoming widely accepted. During the Cold War, the public religiosity spurred by the fight against godless communism led to widespread embrace of the tri-faith idea.

Author : Douglas C. Baynton
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226364339

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Defectives in the Land by Douglas C. Baynton Pdf

“Baynton argues that screening out disability emerged as the primary objective of U.S. immigration policy during the late 19th and early 20th century.” —Journal of Social History Immigration history has largely focused on the restriction of immigrants by race and ethnicity, overlooking disability as a crucial factor in the crafting of the image of the “undesirable immigrant.” Defectives in the Land, Douglas C. Baynton’s groundbreaking new look at immigration and disability, aims to change this. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Baynton explains, immigration restriction in the United States was primarily intended to keep people with disabilities—known as “defectives”—out of the country. The list of those included is long: the deaf, blind, epileptic, and mobility impaired; people with curved spines, hernias, flat or club feet, missing limbs, and short limbs; those unusually short or tall; people with intellectual or psychiatric disabilities; intersexuals; men of “poor physique” and men diagnosed with “feminism.” Not only were disabled individuals excluded, but particular races and nationalities were also identified as undesirable based on their supposed susceptibility to mental, moral, and physical defects. In this transformative book, Baynton argues that early immigration laws were a cohesive whole—a decades-long effort to find an effective method of excluding people considered to be defective. This effort was one aspect of a national culture that was increasingly fixated on competition and efficiency, anxious about physical appearance and difference, and haunted by a fear of hereditary defect and the degeneration of the American race.

Author : Renée Jacobs
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780271036816

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Slow Burn by Renée Jacobs Pdf

"A pictorial chronicle of the Centralia, Pennsylvania, mine fire disaster in 1962, which led, decades later, to the destruction of the town. Includes interviews and historical background"--Provided by publisher.