"That mountain is like a drug store": Knowledge and Medicine in Southern Appalachia, 1900-1933

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dc.contributor.authorBoggs, Eleanor Louiseen
dc.contributor.committeechairDufour, Monique S.en
dc.contributor.committeechairHeaton, Matthew M.en
dc.contributor.committeememberChristensen, Danilleen
dc.contributor.departmentHistoryen
dc.date.accessioned2018-07-24T20:01:11Zen
dc.date.available2018-07-24T20:01:11Zen
dc.date.issued2018-07-22en
dc.description.abstractThis thesis argues that although historians treat the relationship between professional medicine and folk medicine in Southern Appalachia as a competition and place Appalachian folk medicine as a victim of professionalization, the two forms of medicine are best understood as systems of knowledge. Through interviews, medical journals and administrative records, medical school records, and other archival sources, I trace how gender, race, and class shaped knowledge in Appalachian folk medicine and professional medicine during Prohibition and the early twentieth century. Despite the characterization of folk medicine as a victim to professionalization, I find that people in Southern Appalachia actively understood and engaged with shifting ideas of health and constant concerns over the high costs of medicine and limited accessibility to doctors throughout the twentieth century.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Artsen
dc.format.mediumETDen
dc.identifier.othervt_gsexam:16027en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/84342en
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectmedicineen
dc.subjecthealthen
dc.subjectknowledgeen
dc.subjectProhibitionen
dc.subjectAppalachiaen
dc.title"That mountain is like a drug store": Knowledge and Medicine in Southern Appalachia, 1900-1933en
dc.typeThesisen
thesis.degree.disciplineHistoryen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Artsen

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