A Hospital for Ashe County

Four Generations of Appalachian Community Health Care
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-1-4766-6800-0
Verlag: McFarland

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 521 g

Reihe: Contributions to Southern Appalachian Studies

When Ashe County Memorial Hospital opened in November 1941, it was the realization of a dream for the poor, sparsely populated county in the mountains of northwestern North Carolina. Building a hospital is a major undertaking for any community at any time. Accomplishing this in the waning days of the Great Depression and on the brink of World War II, while scant local resources were taxed by catastrophic floods and severe snows, was a remarkable feat of community organization. This is the story of the generations of supporters, doctors, nurses, emergency personnel and others whose lives are interwoven with regional health care and the planning, building and operation of (the ""new"") Ashe Memorial Hospital. This legacy, brought to life through 114 photographs and personal interviews with 97 individuals, traces the development of health care in a remote Appalachian community, from the days of folk remedies and midwives, to horseback doctors and early infirmaries, to the technological advances and outreach efforts of today's Ashe Memorial Hospital.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pittard, Janet C.

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Janet Pittard is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in Our State and Signature magazines and who has written for UNC-TV's Our State program. She lives in Raleigh and West Jefferson, USA.