Health Culture in the Heartland, 1880-1980: An Oral History

ISBN-13: 9780252033483 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 272 str.

Lucinda McCray Beier

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This history of health, illness, and medical care in one downstateIllinoiscounty offers a richly detailed account, spanning more than a century of health care, from the perspectives of county residents, nurses, doctors, and public health professionals. Drawing on a wealth of oral history interviews, hospital records, and other primary documents, Lucinda McCray Beier provides insight into home management of ill health, birth, and death; nurses training and practices; the experiences of African American healers and patients;public health provision;and other topics. By observing the history of medicine and public health throughthe eyes of practitioners and laypeople over an extended period in one Midwestern county, this volume offers insight into broad American experience as well asan important counterweight to metropolitan-oriented, physician-centered studies."