Health Culture in the Heartland, 1880-1980 : An Oral History, Paperback / softback Book

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

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This history of health, illness, and medical care in one downstate Illinois county 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 through the eyes of practitioners and laypeople over an extended period in one Midwestern county, this volume offers insight into broad American experience as well as an important counterweight to metropolitan-oriented, physician-centered studies.

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