Authorized to heal : gender, class, and the transformation of medicine in Appalachia, 1880-1930 / Sandra Lee Barney.

Chapel Hill ; London : University of North Carolina Press, [2000], ©2000.

xiii, 222 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-214) and index.

Ch. 1. Bringing modern medicine to the mountains -- Ch. 2. Physicians and the quest for professional identity -- Ch. 3. What the Women's Clubs can do -- Ch. 4. Women, health care, and the community -- Ch. 5. Limiting public health.