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George Brosi Barney, Sandra Lee. Authorized to Heal: Gender, Class and the Transformation ofMedicine in Central Appalachia, 1880-1930. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2000. 240 pages, illustrated with photos, charts and maps. Notes, bibliography and index. Hardback in dust jacket. $39.95. Paperback. $17.95. Deep in the Appalachian Mountains, the decades before and after the turn of the twentieth Century brought a dramatic change in health care delivery as female midwives and healers were replaced by male doctors. Barney's book documents a great irony inherent in this transformation. Female activists played a central role in encouraging this change. Although the impact of their work was arguably that women and children received better care, at the same time the result was men doing work which previously had been done by women. Sandra Lee Barney is a professor of history at Lock Haven University in Pennsylvania. Carver, Bill. Branch Water Tales. Andrews, North Carolina: Mountain Voice Publishers, 1999. 221 pages. Trade paperback. $13.95. "Carver's narratives are gripping; he skillfully leads us through the story as though we were there, one of the spectators. His descriptive powers are such that we see what he is portraying. Best of all,
Appalachian Review – University of North Carolina Press
Published: Jan 8, 2000
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