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• Mothering others - caregiving as spectrum and spectacle in the early modern period, Naomi J. Miller.
• Part 1 Conception and lactation: mirrors of language, mirrors of self - the conceptualization of artistic identity in Gaspara Stampa and Sofonisba Anguissola, Judith Rose-- midwiving virility in early modern England, Caroline Bicks-- to bare or not to bare - Sofonisba Anguissola's nursing Madonna and the womanly art of breastfeeding, Naomi Yavneb-- "but blood whitened" - nursing mothers and others in early modern Britain, Rachel Trubowitz.
• Part 2 Nurture and instruction: language and "mother's milk" - maternal roles and the nurturing body in early modern Spanish texts, Emilie L. Begmann-- motherhood and Protestant polemics - stillbirth in Hans von Rute's "Abgotterei", 1531, Glenn Ehrstine-- the Virgin's voice - representations of Mary in 17th-century song, Claire Fonijn-- "his open side our book" - meditation and education in Elizabeth Grymeston's "Miscelanea Meditations Memoratives", Edith Snook.
• Part 3 Domestic production: negativising nurture and demonizing domesticity - the witch construct in early modern Germany, Nancy Hayes-- the difficult birth of the good mother - Donneau de Vise's "L'Embarras de Godard, ou L'Accouchee", Deborah Steinberger-- "players in your huswifery, and huswives in your beds" - conflicting identities of early modern English women, Mary Thomas Crane-- maternal textualities, Susan Frye.
• Part 4 Social authority: "my mother musicke" - music and early modern fantasies of embodiment, Linda Phyllis Austern-- Marian devotion and maternal authority in 17th-century England, Frances E. Dolan-- mother love - cliches and Amazons in early modern England, Kathryn Schwarz-- native mothers, native others - Al Malinche, Pocahontas, and Scajawea, Kari McBride.
• Part 5 Mortality: London's mourning garments - maternity, mourning and Royal succession, Patricia Phillipy-- early modern Medea - representations of child murder in the street literature of 17th-century England, Susan C. Staub-- "I fear there will a worse come in his place" - surrogate parents and Shakespeare's "Richard III", Heather Dubrow.
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Care-givers in the early modern period included not only mothers and stepmothers, but also midwives and nurses, tutors and educators, wise women and witches. The contributors to this volume present research and criticism on a wide range of early modern care-giving roles by women in England, Italy, Spain, France, Latin America, Mexico and the New World. The essays are not only cross-cultural but also interdisciplinary, spanning literature, history, music and art history; and they focus on differences of gender, class and race. A wide variety of scholarly and critical approaches are represented. Essays are grouped in categories on conception and lactation; maternal nurture and instruction; domestic production; and social authority.
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• Acknowledgements ... ix Illustrations and Figures ... x List of Contributors ... xi
• 1 Domestic Workers of the World: Histories of Domestic Work as Global Labor History ... 1 Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, Silke Neunsinger and Dirk Hoerder
• 2 Historians, Social Scientists, Servants and Domestic Workers: Fifty Years of Research on Domestic and Care Work ... 25 Raffaella Sarti
• 3 Historical Perspectives on Domestic and Care-Giving Workers' Migrations: A Global Approach ... 61 Dirk Hoerder
• PART 1 Combining Work and Emotions: Strategies, Agency, Self-Assertion
• 4 Introduction: Combining Work and Emotions: Strategies, Agency, Self-assertion ... 113 Dirk Hoerder
• 5 Slovenian Domestic Workers in Italy: A Borderlands Care Chain over Time ... 120 Majda Hrzenjak
• 6 Ties that Bind: Localizing the Occupational Motivations that Drive Non-Union Affiliated Domestic Workers in Salvador, Brazil ... 137 Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman and Jaira J. Harrington
• 7 Maid-of-all-Work or Professional Nanny? The Changing Character of Domestic Work in Polish Households, Eighteenth Century to the Present 158 Marta Kindler and Anna Kordasiewicz
• 8 Mutual Emotional Relations in Caregiving Work at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century: Vietnamese Families and Czech Nannies-Grandmothers ... 182 Adela Souralova
• 9 Making the Personal Political: The First Domestic Workers' Strike in Pune, Maharashtra ... 202 Lokesh
• 10 Ambivalence of Return Home: Revaluating Transnational Trajectories of Filipina Live-In Domestic Workers and Caregivers in Toronto from 1970 to 2010 ... 222 Yukari Takai with Mary Gene De Guzman
• PART 2 Domestic Work in the Colonial Context: Race, Color, and Power in the Household
• 11 Introduction: Domestic Work in the Colonial Context: Race, Color, and Power in the Household ... 245 Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk
• 12 Slavery, Servility, Service: The Cape of Good Hope, the Natal Colony, and the Witwatersrand, 1652-1914 ... 254 Shireen Ally
• 13 The Servant Problem: African Servants the Making of European Domesticity in Colonial Tanganyika ... 271 Robyn Allyce Pariser
• 14 Imperial Divisions of Labor: Chinese Servants and Racial Reproduction in the White Settler Societies of California and the Anglophone Pacific, 1870-1907 ... 296 Andrew Urban
• 15 "The Matter of Wages Does not Seem to be Material": Native American Domestic Workers' Wages under the Outing System in the United States, 1880s-1930s ... 323 Victoria K. Haskins
• 16 Who's in Charge, The Government, the Mistress, or the Maid? Tracing the History of Domestic Workers in Southeast Asia ... 346 Bela Kashyap
• 17 Migrant Domestic Work through the Lens of "Coloniality": Narratives from Eritrean Afro-Surinamese Women ... 366 Sabrina Marchetti
• PART 3 From Servitude to Domestic Service: The Role of International Bodies, States and Elites for the Changing Conditions in Domestic Work between the 19th and 20th Century
• 18 From Servitude to Domestic Service: The Role of International Bodies, States and Elites for Changing Conditions in Domestic Work Between the 19th and 20th Centuries. An Introduction ... 389 Silke Neunsinger
• 19 Reconfiguring Household Slavery in Twentieth Century Fes, Morocco ... 400 R. David Goodman
• 20 Child Slavery, Sex Trafficking or Domestic Work? The League of Nations and Its Analysis of the Mui Tsai System ... 428 Magaly Rodriguez Garcia
• 21 Domestic work in Cyprus, 1925-1955: Motivations, Working Conditions and the Colonial Legal Framework ... 451 Dimitris Kalantzopoulos
• 22 Employing Migrant Domestic Workers in Urban Yemen: A New Form of Social Distinction ... 465 Marina de Regt
• 23 What is "Domestic Service" Anyway? Producing Household Labourers in Austria (1918-1938) ... 484 Jessica Richter
• 24 "The Problem of Domestic Service in Chile, 1924-1952" ... 511 Elizabeth Quay Hutchison
• 25 Decent Work for Domestics: Feminist Organizing, Worker Empowerment, and the ILO ... 530 Eileen Boris and Jennifer N. Fish Index ... 553.
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Domestic and caregiving work has been at the core of human existence throughout history. A team of international scholars addresses the issues of state, agency, and domestic service in colonizer frames globally in historical perspectives.
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Domestic and caregiving work has been at the core of human existence throughout history. Poorly paid or even unpaid, this work has been assigned to women in most societes and occasionally to men often as enslaved, indentures, "adopted" workers. While some use domestic service as training for their own future independent households, others are confined to it for life and try to avoid damage to their identities (Part One). Employment conditions are even worse in colonizer-colonized dichotomies, in which the subalternized have to run the households of administrators who believe they are running an empire (Part Two). Societies and states set the discriminatory rules, those employed develop strategies of resistance or self-protection (Part Three). A team of international scholars addresses these issues globally with a deep historical background. Contributors are: Ally Shireen, Eileen Boris, Dana Cooper, Jennifer Fish, David R. Goodman, Mary Gene De Guzman, Jaira Harrington, Victoria Haskins, Dirk Hoerder, Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman, Majda Hrzenjak, Elizabeth Hutchison, Dimitris Kalantzopoulos, Bela Kashyap, Marta Kindler, Anna Kordasiewicz, Ms Lokesh, Sabrina Marchetti, Robyn Pariser, Jessica Richter, Magaly Rodriguez Garcia, Raffaella Sarti, Adela Souralova, Yukari Takai, and Andrew Urban.
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• Acknowledgements ... ix Illustrations and Figures ... x List of Contributors ... xi
• 1 Domestic Workers of the World: Histories of Domestic Work as Global Labor History ... 1 Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, Silke Neunsinger and Dirk Hoerder
• 2 Historians, Social Scientists, Servants and Domestic Workers: Fifty Years of Research on Domestic and Care Work ... 25 Raffaella Sarti
• 3 Historical Perspectives on Domestic and Care-Giving Workers' Migrations: A Global Approach ... 61 Dirk Hoerder
• PART 1 Combining Work and Emotions: Strategies, Agency, Self-Assertion
• 4 Introduction: Combining Work and Emotions: Strategies, Agency, Self-assertion ... 113 Dirk Hoerder
• 5 Slovenian Domestic Workers in Italy: A Borderlands Care Chain over Time ... 120 Majda Hrzenjak
• 6 Ties that Bind: Localizing the Occupational Motivations that Drive Non-Union Affiliated Domestic Workers in Salvador, Brazil ... 137 Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman and Jaira J. Harrington
• 7 Maid-of-all-Work or Professional Nanny? The Changing Character of Domestic Work in Polish Households, Eighteenth Century to the Present 158 Marta Kindler and Anna Kordasiewicz
• 8 Mutual Emotional Relations in Caregiving Work at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century: Vietnamese Families and Czech Nannies-Grandmothers ... 182 Adela Souralova
• 9 Making the Personal Political: The First Domestic Workers' Strike in Pune, Maharashtra ... 202 Lokesh
• 10 Ambivalence of Return Home: Revaluating Transnational Trajectories of Filipina Live-In Domestic Workers and Caregivers in Toronto from
• 1970 to 2010 ... 222 Yukari Takai with Mary Gene De Guzman
• PART 2 Domestic Work in the Colonial Context: Race, Color, and Power in the Household
• 11 Introduction: Domestic Work in the Colonial Context: Race, Color, and Power in the Household ... 245 Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk
• 12 Slavery, Servility, Service: The Cape of Good Hope, the Natal Colony, and the Witwatersrand, 1652-1914 ... 254 Shireen Ally
• 13 The Servant Problem: African Servants the Making of European Domesticity in Colonial Tanganyika ... 271 Robyn Allyce Pariser
• 14 Imperial Divisions of Labor: Chinese Servants and Racial Reproduction in the White Settler Societies of California and the Anglophone Pacific, 1870-1907 ... 296 Andrew Urban
• 15 "The Matter of Wages Does not Seem to be Material": Native American Domestic Workers' Wages under the Outing System in the United States, 1880s-1930s ... 323 Victoria K. Haskins
• 16 Who's in Charge, The Government, the Mistress, or the Maid? Tracing the History of Domestic Workers in Southeast Asia ... 346 Bela Kashyap
• 17 Migrant Domestic Work through the Lens of "Coloniality": Narratives from Eritrean Afro-Surinamese Women ... 366 Sabrina Marchetti
• PART 3 From Servitude to Domestic Service: The Role of International Bodies, States and Elites for the Changing Conditions in Domestic Work between the 19th and 20th Century
• 18 From Servitude to Domestic Service: The Role of International Bodies, States and Elites for Changing Conditions in Domestic Work Between the 19th and 20th Centuries. An Introduction ... 389 Silke Neunsinger
• 19 Reconfiguring Household Slavery in Twentieth Century Fes, Morocco ... 400 R. David Goodman
• 20 Child Slavery, Sex Trafficking or Domestic Work? The League of Nations and Its Analysis of the Mui Tsai System ... 428 Magaly Rodriguez Garcia
• 21 Domestic work in Cyprus, 1925-1955: Motivations, Working Conditions and the Colonial Legal Framework ... 451 Dimitris Kalantzopoulos
• 22 Employing Migrant Domestic Workers in Urban Yemen: A New Form of Social Distinction ... 465 Marina de Regt
• 23 What is "Domestic Service" Anyway? Producing Household Labourers in Austria (1918-1938) ... 484 Jessica Richter
• 24 "The Problem of Domestic Service in Chile, 1924-1952" ... 511 Elizabeth Quay Hutchison
• 25 Decent Work for Domestics: Feminist Organizing, Worker Empowerment, and the ILO ... 530 Eileen Boris and Jennifer N. Fish Index ... 553.
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Domestic and caregiving work has been at the core of human existence throughout history. Poorly paid or even unpaid, this work has been assigned to women in most societes and occasionally to men often as enslaved, indentures, "adopted" workers. While some use domestic service as training for their own future independent households, others are confined to it for life and try to avoid damage to their identities (Part One). Employment conditions are even worse in colonizer-colonized dichotomies, in which the subalternized have to run the households of administrators who believe they are running an empire (Part Two). Societies and states set the discriminatory rules, those employed develop strategies of resistance or self-protection (Part Three). A team of international scholars addresses these issues globally with a deep historical background. Contributors are: Ally Shireen, Eileen Boris, Dana Cooper, Jennifer Fish, David R. Goodman, Mary Gene De Guzman, Jaira Harrington, Victoria Haskins, Dirk Hoerder, Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman, Majda Hrzenjak, Elizabeth Hutchison, Dimitris Kalantzopoulos, Bela Kashyap, Marta Kindler, Anna Kordasiewicz, Ms Lokesh, Sabrina Marchetti, Robyn Pariser, Jessica Richter, Magaly Rodriguez Garcia, Raffaella Sarti, Adela Souralova, Yukari Takai, and Andrew Urban.
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• Preface - Charlotte Roberts
• 1. Introduction William Southwell-Wright, Rebecca Gowland and Lindsay Powell
• Section 1: Care and the Life Course
• 2. Childcare in the Past Mary Lewis
• 3. The "Terrible Tyranny of the Majority": Recognising Population Variability and Individual Agency in Past Infant Feeding Practices Ellen Kendall
• 4.-Precious Things: Examining the Status and Care of Children in Late Medieval England Through the analysis of Cultural and Biological Markers Heidi Dawson
• 5. "That Tattered Coat Upon a Stick the Ageing Body": Evidence for Elder Marginalisation and Abuse in Roman Britain Rebecca L. Gowland
• Section 2: Care Impairment and Disability
• 6. The Palaeolithic Compassion Debate - Alternative Projections of Modern Day Disability into the Distant Past Nick Thorpe
• 7. Setting the Scene for an Evolutionary Approach to Care in Prehistory: A Historical and Philosophical Journey David Doat
• 8. "A Long Waiting for Death": Dependency and the Care of the Disabled in a Nineteenth Century Asylum Shawn Phillips
• 9 Prayers and Poultices: Medieval Health Care at the Isle of May, Scotland. C. AD 430-1580 Marlo Willows
• Section 3: Animal and Plant Evidence for Care
• 10. Towards a Zooarchaeology of Animal `Care' Richard Thomas
• 11. Rare Secrets of Physicke: Insect Medicaments in Historical Western Society Gary King
• 12. Conclusion Lindsay Powell, William Southwell-Wright, Rebecca Gowland.
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Care-giving is an activity that has been practiced by all human societies. From the earliest societies through to the present, all humans have faced choices regarding how people in positions of dependency are to be treated. As such, care-giving, and the form it takes, is a central experience of being a human and one that is culturally mediated. Archaeology has tended to marginalise the study of care, and debates surrounding our ability to recognise it within the archaeological record have often remained implicit rather than a focus of discussion. In order to address this, the 12 papers in this volume bring together archaeological, historical, and philosophical perspectives to examine the topic of care in past societies, and how we might recognise the provision of care in archaeological contexts. The topic of care is examined through three different strands: care throughout the life course, namely that provided to the youngest and oldest members of society; care-giving and attitudes towards impairment and disability; and the role of animals as both recipients of care and as tools for its provision.
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• Foreword. The struggle is never over / Mick Carpenter
• Mental health nursing : the working lives of paid carers from 1800 to the 1990s / Anne Borsay and Pamela Dale
• Psychiatric nurses and their patients in the nineteenth century : the Irish perspective / Oonagh Walsh
• A duty to learn : attendant training in Victoria, Australia, 1880-1907 / Lee-Ann Monk
• 'Who are these?' : nursing shell-shocked patients in Cardiff during the First World War / Anne Borsay and Sara Knight
• Discourse of dispute : narratives of asylum nurses and attendants, 1910-22 / Barbara Douglas
• 'Surely a nice occupation for a girl?' : stories of nursing, gender, violence and mental illness in British asylums, 1914-30 / Vicky Long
• Reassessing staffing requirements and creating new roles for nurses during a period of rapid change at the Royal Western Counties Institution, 1927-48 / Pamela Dale
• 'The weakest link in the chain of nursing?' : recruitment and retention in mental health nursing in England, 1948-68 / Claire Chatterton
• Wardens, letter writing and the welfare state, 1944-74 / John Welshman
• Learning disability nursing : surviving change, c. 1970-90 / Duncan Mitchell
• Between asylum and community : DGH psychiatric nurses at Withington General Hospital, 1971-91 / Val Harrington.

• Preface - Charlotte Roberts
• 1. Introduction William Southwell-Wright, Rebecca Gowland and Lindsay Powell
• Section 1: Care and the Life Course
• 2. Childcare in the Past Mary Lewis
• 3. The "Terrible Tyranny of the Majority": Recognising Population Variability and Individual Agency in Past Infant Feeding Practices Ellen Kendall
• 4.-Precious Things: Examining the Status and Care of Children in Late Medieval England Through the analysis of Cultural and Biological Markers Heidi Dawson
• 5. "That Tattered Coat Upon a Stick the Ageing Body": Evidence for Elder Marginalisation and Abuse in Roman Britain Rebecca L. Gowland
• Section 2: Care Impairment and Disability
• 6. The Palaeolithic Compassion Debate - Alternative Projections of Modern Day Disability into the Distant Past Nick Thorpe
• 7. Setting the Scene for an Evolutionary Approach to Care in Prehistory: A Historical and Philosophical Journey David Doat
• 8. "A Long Waiting for Death": Dependency and the Care of the Disabled in a Nineteenth Century Asylum Shawn Phillips
• 9 Prayers and Poultices: Medieval Health Care at the Isle of May, Scotland. C. AD 430-1580 Marlo Willows
• Section 3: Animal and Plant Evidence for Care
• 10. Towards a Zooarchaeology of Animal `Care' Richard Thomas
• 11. Rare Secrets of Physicke: Insect Medicaments in Historical Western Society Gary King
• 12. Conclusion Lindsay Powell, William Southwell-Wright, Rebecca Gowland.
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Care-giving is an activity that has been practiced by all human societies. From the earliest societies through to the present, all humans have faced choices regarding how people in positions of dependency are to be treated. As such, care-giving, and the form it takes, is a central experience of being a human and one that is culturally mediated. Archaeology has tended to marginalise the study of care, and debates surrounding our ability to recognise it within the archaeological record have often remained implicit rather than a focus of discussion. In order to address this, the 12 papers in this volume bring together archaeological, historical, and philosophical perspectives to examine the topic of care in past societies, and how we might recognise the provision of care in archaeological contexts. The topic of care is examined through three different strands: care throughout the life course, namely that provided to the youngest and oldest members of society; care-giving and attitudes towards impairment and disability; and the role of animals as both recipients of care and as tools for its provision.
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• Note on Dates and Money
• Introduction: The Tales Madness Tell
• Chapter 1. Incapacity, Guardianship, and the Tuscan Family
• Chapter 2. "Madness Is Punishment Enough": The Insanity Defense
• Chapter 3. Spending Without Measure: Madness, Money, and the Marketplace
• Chapter 4. From Madness to Sickness
• Chapter 5. The Curious Case of Forensic Medicine: The Dog That Didn't Bark in the Night Conclusion
• List of Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments.
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Based on three hundred civil and criminal cases over four centuries, Elizabeth W. Mellyn reconstructs the myriad ways families, communities, and civic and medical authorities met in the dynamic arena of Tuscan law courts to forge pragmatic solutions to the problems that madness brought to their households and streets. In some of these cases, solutions were protective and palliative; in others, they were predatory or abusive. The goals of families were sometimes at odds with those of the courts, but for the most part families and judges worked together to order households and communities in ways that served public and private interests. For most of the period Mellyn examines, Tuscan communities had no institutions devoted solely to the treatment and protection of the mentally disturbed; responsibility for their long-term care fell to the family. By the end of the seventeenth century, Tuscans, like other Europeans, had come to explain madness in medical terms and the mentally disordered were beginning to move from households to hospitals. In Mad Tuscans and Their Families, Mellyn argues against the commonly held belief that these changes chart the rise of mechanisms of social control by emerging absolutist states. Rather, the story of mental illness is one of false starts, expedients, compromise, and consensus created by a wide range of historical actors.
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• Acknowledgments Introduction Part One: 1850-1890
• 1. "Hot Flannels, Hot Teas, and a Great Deal of Care": Emily Hawley Gillespie and Sarah Gillespie, 1858-1888
• 2. An Overview of Nineteenth-Century Caregiving
• 3. "Tried at the Quilting Bees": Conflicts between "Old Ladies" and Aspiring Professionals Part Two: 1890-1940
• 4. A "Terrible and Exhausting" Struggle: Martha Shaw Farnsworth, 1890-1924
• 5. "Just as You Direct": Caregiver Translations of Medical Authority
• 6. Negotiating Public Health Directives: Poor New Yorkers at the Turn of the Century.
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The image of the female caregiver holding a midnight vigil at the bedside of a sick relative is so firmly rooted in our collective imagination we might assume that such caregiving would have attracted the scrutiny of numerous historians. As Emily Abel demonstrates in this groundbreaking study of caregiving in America across class and ethnic divides and over the course of ninety years, this has hardly been the case. While caring for sick and disabled family members was commonplace for women in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century America, that caregiving, the caregivers' experience of it, and the medical profession's reaction to it took diverse and sometimes unexpected forms. A complex series of historical changes, Abel shows, has profoundly altered the content and cultural meaning of care. Hearts of Wisdom is an immersion into that world of care. Drawing on antebellum slave narratives, white farm women's diaries, and public health records, Abel puts together a multifaceted picture of what caregiving meant to American women--and what it cost them--from the pre-Civil War years to the brink of America's entry into the Second World War. She shows that caregiving offered women an arena in which experience could be parlayed into expertise, while at the same time the revolution in bacteriology and the transformation of the formal health care system were weakening women's claim to that expertise.
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• Contents
• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1 The Anthracite Coal Region
• 2 Professional Medicine in the Anthracite Coal Region
• 3 Mothering Through Medicine: The Neighborhood Women
• 4 Powwowers and Pennsylvania German Medicin
• 5 Miners, Masculinity, and Medical Self-Help
• 6 Moving from Traditional Medicine to Biomedicine Conclusion
• Notes Bibliography Index.
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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.
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