| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 106.5

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Sandra Lee Barney. Authorized to Heal: Gender, Class, and the Transformation of Medicine in Appalachia 1880–1930. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2000. Pp. xiii, 222. Cloth $39.95, paper $17.95.

Sandra Lee Barney has produced a slim but rich and graceful volume that combines the historical literature of women, medicine, and Appalachian history. Her work demonstrates the dominant trend in recent scholarship on Appalachia when she argues that the region was not exceptional but reflected patterns in American society as a whole. Her very significant contribution is to thresh out the local nuances of the alternative collaboration and conflict between women reformers and male physicians that has been explored on the national level by Theda Skocpol and other historians of the welfare state. Skocpol's argument about the importance of middle-class club women in fostering "maternalist" public policies in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries has especially influenced this work. . . .

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