WVU Libraries: Appalachian Bibliography: Health and Medicine

Health and Medicine

Anglin, Mary K. 2001 [1999]. “Stories of AIDS in Appalachia.” In Back Talk from Appalachia: Confronting Stereotypes, eds. D. Billings, G. Norman, and K. Ledford, 267-280. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. Originally published as Confronting Appalachian Stereotypes.

Appalachian Leadership Coalition on Cancer (ALIC). 1995. Sowing Seeds in the Mountains: Community-Based Coalitions for Cancer Prevention and Control. Edited by Richard Couto and others, with photographs by Earl Dotter. Washington: National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute. 343 pp.

Baldwin, Fred D. 1999. “Access to Care: Overcoming the Rural Physician Shortage” [ Ky., Tenn.]. Appalachia: Journal of the Appalachian Regional Commission 32 (May-August): 8-15.

Barnett, Elizabeth, and others. 1998. Heart Disease in Appalachia: An Atlas of County Economic Conditions, Mortality, and Medical Care Resources. Morgantown, W.Va.: Prevention Research Center, West Virginia University. 93 pp.

Barney, Sandra Lee. 1999. “Maternalism and the Promotion of Scientific Medicine During the Industrial Transformation of Appalachia, 1880-1930.” NWSA Journal: A Publication of the National Women’s Studies Association 11 (Fall): 68-92.

Barney, Sandra Lee. 2000. Authorized to Heal: Gender, Class, and the Transformation of Medicine in Central Appalachia, 1880-1930 [ Ky., Va., W.Va.; women in medicine: physicians, nurses, midwives]. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 222 pp.

Barney, Sandra. 1996. "Bringing Modern Medicine to the Mountains: Scientific Medicine and the Transformation of Health Care in Southern West Virginia, 1880-1910." West Virginia History 55 (1996): 110-126.

Bauer, William M, and Bruce Growick. 2003. “Rehabilitation Counseling in Appalachian America” [profiles culture, employment opportunities, media impact, health services, insurance dilemma]. Journal of Rehabilitation 69, no. 3: 18-24.

Beck, Rubye W., Caroline R. Jijon, and Joellen B. Edwards. 1996. "The Relationships Among Gender, Perceived Financial Barriers to Care, and Health-Status in a Rural Population." Journal of Rural Health 12 (Summer): 188-196.

Behringer, Bruce. 2000. “Creating Community Partnerships” [rural health outreach; East Tennessee State University, and Johnson and Hawkins Cos.; Kellogg Foundation grant]. Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 17 (Spring): 20-23.

Caraway, Crystal S., and Anthony Cavender. 2004. “Vernacular Sexual Beliefs and Practices among Appalachian Youth” [focus group based]. Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin 60, no. 3: 96-127. Appendices: discussion topics, and interview data.

Casto, James E. 1994. "Dr. Louise: A Kentucky Pioneer." [ Morehead, Ky.] Appalachia 27 (Summer): 24-29.

Casto, James E. 1996. "Rx for the Rural Health-Care Shortage." [ W.Va. and Tenn. medical students' service at rural clinics] Appalachia: Journal of the Appalachian Regional Commission 29 (September-December): 22-27.

Casto, James E. 1997. “Challenging Cancer at the Grass Roots” [ALIC: Appalachian Leadership Initiative on Cancer]. Appalachia: Journal of the Appalachian Regional Commission 30 (Jan.-Apr.): 20-23.

Cavender, Anthony, and Steve Crowder. 2002. “White-Livered Widders and Bad-Blooded Men: Folk Illness and Sexual Disorder in Southern Appalachia.” Journal of the History of Sexuality 11 (October): 637-649.

Cavender, Anthony P. 2003. Folk Medicine in Southern Appalachia [authoritative history]. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 266 pp.

Cavender, Anthony. 1996. "Local Unorthodox Healers of Cancer in the Appalachian South." Journal of Community Health 21 (October): 359-374.

Chase, Nan. 2004. “Ray Hicks: The Mysterious Healer” [legendary storyteller is also a faith healer; warts]. Appalachian Heritage 32 (Spring): 38-45.

Costello, E. Jane, Elizabeth M. Z. Farmer, and Adrian Angold. “ Psychiatric Disorders Among American Indian and White Youth in Appalachia: The Great Smoky Mountains Study.” American Journal of Public Health 87 (May): 827-832.

Couto, Richard A., Nancy K. Simpson, and Gale Harris, eds. 1994. Sowing Seeds in the Mountains: Community-Based Coalitions for Cancer Prevention and Control. NIH Publication, no. 94-3779. Washington, D.C.: Appalachian Leadership Initiative on Cancer, National Cancer Institute. 343 pp.

Cozzo, David. 2003. “Beyond Tall Tales: Ray Hicks and Mountain Herbalism” [folk illnesses; plant remedies]. Appalachian Journal 30 (Summer): 284-301.

Crellin, John K., and Jane Philpott. 1997 [1990]. A Reference Guide to Medicinal Plants:.Herbal Medicine Past and Present [based on the practice of herbalist A.L. "Tommie" Bass]. Durham: Duke University Press. 551 pp. (Previously published as vol. 2 of Herbal Medicine Past and Present)

Crellin, John K., Jane Philpott, and A. L. Tommie Bass. 1997 [1990]. Trying to Give Ease: Tommie Bass and the Story of Herbal Medicine. Durham: Duke University Press. 335 pp. (Previously published as vol. 1 of Herbal Medicine Past and Present)

Davis, Joel. 1996. "Faith and Medicine." [ETSU medical school curriculum] Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 13 (Winter): 15-17.

Denham, Sharon A. 1996. "Family Health in a Rural Appalachian Ohio County." [ Meigs County] Journal of Appalachian Studies 2 (Fall): 299-310.

Denham, Sharon A., Michael G. Meyer, and Mary A. Toborg. 2004. “Tobacco Cessation in Adolescent Females in Appalachian Communities.” Family and Community Health 27, no. 2: 170-181.

Denham, Sharon A., Michael G. Meyer, Mary A. Toborg, Man J. Mande. 2004. “Providing Health Education to Appalachia Populations” [52 focus groups in 10 states: emphasis on family, and central role of women]. Holistic Nursing Practice 18 (November/December): 293-301.

Derickson, Alan. 1996. "The Role of the United Mine Workers in the Prevention of Work-Related Respiratory Disease, 1890-1968." In The United Mine Workers of America: A Model of Industrial Solidarity?, ed. J. Laslett, 224-238. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press.

Derickson, Alan. 1998. Black Lung: Anatomy of a Public Health Disaster [history]. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press. 237 pp.

Dockery, Bill. 2000. “Telemedicine: A Marriage of Medicine & Technology” [ University of Tennessee outreach: Tenn., N.C., Ky., Va.]. Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 17 (Spring): 26-28.

Efaw, Jennifer. 1998. “High Hopes at Colin Anderson Center” [Pleasants Co. home for mentally retarded children, 1929-1998]. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 24 (Winter): 52-61.

Ettinger, Laura E. 1999. “Nurse-Midwives, the Mass Media, and the Politics of Maternal Health Care in the United States, 1925-1955” [ Ky.; Frontier Nursing Service]. Nursing Health Review 7: 47-66.

Frank, Laura, Susan Thomas, and Robert Sherborne. 1999. “Mystery Illnesses” [at Oak Ridge, Tenn., and 12 other nuclear weapons sites]. Southern Exposure 27 (Fall): 40-44. Reprinted from The Tennessean, Nashville.

Friedrich, M. J. 2002. “Program Aims to Reduce Cancer Burden in Appalachia” [ Appalachia Cancer Network]. Journal of the National Cancer Institute 94 (no. 16): 1189-1191.

Geronimus, Arline T., John Bound, and Timothy A. Waidmann. 1999. “Poverty, Time, and Place: Variation in Excess Mortality Across Selected US Populations, 1980-1990” [including Detroit, Chicago, Appalachian Ky., northeastern Ala., western N.C.]. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health 53 (June): 325-334.

Gish, Shirley. 1999. Country Doctor: The Story of Dr. Claire Louise Caudill [b. 1931; Morehead, Ky.; interviews]. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 168 pp.

Goan, Melanie Beals. 2003. “Establishing Their Place in the Dynasty: Sophonisba and Mary Breckinridge’s Paths to Public Service” [privileged upbringing; Mary, 1881-1965, founded the Frontier Nursing Service, 1925, Leslie Co., Ky.]. Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 101 (Winter/Spring): 45-73.

Gore, Prasanna, and Suresh Madhavan. 1999. “Predictors of Childhood Immunization Completion in a Rural Population” [ W.Va.]. Social Science & Medicine 48 (April): 1011-1027.

Graham, M. Anthony. 1996. "Telepsychiatry in Appalachia." [telecommunication in rural mental health services] American Behavioral Scientist 39 (March-April): 602-615.

Halverson, Joel A., Lin Ma, E. James Harner, Robert Q. Hanham, and Valerie E. Braham. 2004. Adult Obesity in Appalachia: An Atlas of Geographic Disparities [county outline maps, tables]. Morgantown: West Virginia University, Prevention Research Center, Center for Healthy Communities. 121 pp.

Harris, Gardiner. 1999. “Dust, Deception and Death” [black lung disease]. Southern Exposure 27 (Fall): 34-39. Reprinted from the Courier-Journal, Louisville, Ky.

Hartley, Lou Ann. 2002. “Health Perceptions and Health Status Measurement among Rural Appalachian Elders.” Journal of Appalachian Studies 8 (Fall): 284-298.

Hatfield, Gabrielle. 2004. Encyclopedia of Folk Medicine: Old World and New World Traditions [ Britain, Ireland, North America; approx. 230 topics, with references]. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO. 392 pp.

Hoffman, Carl. 2000. “Saving Young Lives” [ Ala.; emergency helicopter Life Saver program]. Appalachia: Journal of the Appalachian Regional Commission 33 (May-August): 14-19.

Horn, Kimberly A., Xin Gao, Geri A. Dino, and Sachin Kamal-Bahl. 2000. “Determinants of Youth Tobacco Use in West Virginia: A Comparison of Smoking and Smokeless Tobacco Use” [883 ninth graders]. American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse 26 (February): 125-138.

Howard, Jason. 2004. “Black Lung: In Search of Answers for East Kentucky Coal Miners” [legal aid’s role, black lung benefits struggle]. Equal Justice Magazine 3 (Fall): 37 paras. Online at http://www.ejm.lsc.gov/EJMIssue7/feature001.htm.

Hunter, Elizabeth. 1997. “ Hot Springs’ Health-Care Pioneers” [Madison Co., N.C., clinic]. Appalachia: Journal of the Appalachian Regional Commission 30 (May-August): 18-23.

Huttlinger, Kathleen, Jennifer Schaller-Ayers, and Tony Lawson. 2004. “Health Care in Appalachia: A Population-Based Approach” [ Southwest Va.; 922 households surveyed]. Public Health Nursing 21 (March/April): 103-110.

Jennings , Donna L., and Shelley I. White-Means. 2001. “Medical Care Utilization by AFDC Recipients under Reformed Medicaid” [16-county Appalachian region]. Journal of Health & Social Policy 13 (no. 2): 21-39.

Jerome, Richard, and Giovanna Breu. 1999. “The Roads Less Taken” [profiles W.Va. pediatrician Isabel Pino who delivers rural health care from a converted van]. People Weekly, 29 November, 74-79.

Jesse, D. Elizabeth, and Martha Raile Alligood. 2002. “Holisitic Obstetrical Problem Evaluation (HOPE): Testing a Theory to Predict Birth Outcomes in a Group of Women from Appalachia” [120 pregnant women; East Tenn.]. Health Care for Women International 23 (September): 587-599.

Joel Halverson. 2004. “An Analysis of Disparities in Health Status and Access to Health Care in the Appalachian Region” [mortality, morbidity, maps]. Washington, D.C.: Appalachian Regional Commission, Online Resource Center. 281 pp. http://arc.gov/index.do?nodeId=2335.

Kadlec, David. 1998. "X-ray Testimonials in Muriel Rukeyser" [1938 poem; Gauley Bridge, W.Va., tunnel; silicosis and African-American workers]. Modernism/Modernity 5 (no. 1): 23-47.

Krajcinovic, Ivana. 1997. From Company Doctors to Managed Care: The United Mine Workers’ Noble Experiment [UMWA health care funded by Welfare and Retirement Fund, 1940s to 1960s]. Cornell Studies in Industrial and Labor Relations, no. 31. Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press. 212 pp.

Larimore, Walt. 2002. Bryson City Tales: Stories of a Doctor’s First Year of Practice in the Smoky Mountains [1980s]. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan. 320 pp.

Lee, Renee Gravois, Julie L. Ozanne, and Ronald Paul Hill. 2000. “Improving Service Encounters Through Resource Sensitivity: The Case of Health Care Delivery in an Appalachian Community.” Journal of Public Policy & Marketing 18 (Fall): 230-248.

Lewis, Wilma. 2000. “Into the Hills” [ Bobtown, W.Va.; public health nursing, 1950s-60s]. Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 17 (Spring): 12-15.

MacAvoy, Suzanne, and Doris Troth Lippman. 2001. “Teaching Culturally Competent Care: Nursing Students Experience Rural Appalachia” [two courses taught at Fairfield Univ., Conn., for students sent to Appalachia]. Journal of Transcultural Nursing 12 (July): 221-227.

Mariotti, Rita A. 2003. Coal Miners’ Doctor [outsider memoir of 1957-59 experience as M.D. in a Ky. UMWA hospital]. Martinsville, Ind.: Bookman. 173 pp.

McCall, Pete. 2000. “New River Clinic: A Model for Health Care in Appalachia” [UMWA-established]. United Mine Workers Journal 111 (May-June): 12-13.

McCulloch, B. Jan. 1995. "The Relationship of Family Proximity and Social Support to the Mental Health of Older Rural Adults: The Appalachian Context." Journal of Aging Studies 9 (Spring): 65-81.

McDaniel, Lynda. 1999. “Eula Hall: A Driving Force for Change” [founded Mud Creek Clinic, Grethel, Ky., in 1973]. Appalachia: Journal of the Appalachian Regional Commission 32 (May-August): 41-46.

Meier, Barry. 2003. Pain Killer: A “Wonder” Drug’s Trail of Addiction and Death [OxyContin]. Emmaus, Pa.: Rodale Press. 323 pp.

Meyer, Michael G. 2000. “Mobilizing Moms in the War Against Tobacco.” Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 17 (Spring): 29-32.

Moss, Kay K. 1999. Southern Folk Medicine, 1750-1820. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. 259 pp.

Mulcahy, Richard. 1994. “‘They Shall Walk Again!’ The Physical Rehabilitation Program of the UMWA Welfare and Retirement Fund.” In Appalachian Adaptations to a Changing World, ed. Norma Myers. Journal of the Appalachian Studies Association 6: 140-155. Johnson City: East Tennessee State University, Center for Appalachian Studies and Services.

Mulcahy, Richard. 1996. "A New Deal for Coal Miners: The UMWA Welfare and Retirement Fund and the Reorganization of Health Care in Appalachia." Journal of Appalachian Studies 2 (Spring): 29-52.

Platania, Joseph. 2003. “ Mission in the Mountains: West Virginia’s Pallottine Missionary Sisters” [providing medical care since 1912; Richwood; Huntington]. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 29 (Spring): 18-25.

Plaut, Thomas. 1998. “Responsibility and Community: Sociology, Social Action, and Policy Making at the Local Level” [Madison Co., N.C.; Mars Hill College; medical services]. American Sociologist 29 (Winter): 48-63.

Pore, Renate E., and Daniel M. Christy. 1999. “Access to Health Care in West Virginia”

[insurance; rurality; poverty]. In Inside West Virginia: Public Policy Perspectives for the 21 st Century, eds. B. Keith and R. Althouse, 41-58. Morgantown: West Virginia University Press.

Power of Illness & the Promise of Health in Appalachia. 2000. Special issue, Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 17 (Spring): 1-53.

Powers-Beck, Jeff. 2000. “Beyond Control: Caring for a Body With Diabetes” [juvenile diabetes]. Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 17 (Spring): 42-45.

Rago, Linda Ours. 2000. Blackberry Cove Herbal: Healing with Common Herbs in the Appalachian Wise-Woman Tradition. Sterling, Va.: Capital Books. 166 pp.

Ramey, Crystal, and Jenna Davis. 1998. “Healing the Natural Way” [interview with Ga. herbalist Charles Thurmond]. Foxfire Magazine 32 (Spring/Summer): 47-51.

Ramsey, Priscilla W., and L. Lee Glenn. 1998. “Risk Factors for Heart Disease in Rural Appalachia” [ Eastern Tenn. county]. Family and Community Health 20 (January): 71-82.

Roberts, Alma Dolen. 2000. House Calls: Memoirs of Life with a Kentucky Doctor [Wayne Co.; 1932-93]. Ashland, Ky.: Jesse Stuart Foundation. 326 pp.

Roberts, Alma Dolen. 2001. House Calls: Memoirs of Life with a Kentucky Doctor [Wayne Co.; 1903-2001]. Ashland, Ky.: Jesse Stuart Foundation. 326 pp.

Rosswurm, Mary Ann, Debra M. Dent, Cynthia C. Armstrong-Persily, Paula Woodburn, and Barbara Davis. 1996. "Illness Experiences and Health Recovery Behaviors of Patients in Southern Appalachia." [ W.Va.] Western Journal of Nursing Research 18 (August): 441-459.

Rowles, Graham D., James A Concotelli, and Dallas M. High. 1996. "Community Integration of a Rural Nursing Home." Journal of Applied Gerontology 15 (June): 188-201.

Russell, Jack, and Fred D. Baldwin. 1999. “A Conversation on Rural Health Care” [interview with Wayne Myers, director, U.S. Office of Rural Health Policy]. Appalachia: Journal of the Appalachian Regional Commission 32 (May-August): 16-21.

Shambaugh, Helen Bradfield. 2003. “Magnolia Nurse: Patty Norton of Morgan County” [b. 1913; rural health care, 1940s-50s]. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 29 (Winter): 46-48.

Simpson, Mary Rado, and Marilyn Givens King. 1999. “‘God Brought All These Churches Together’: Issues in Developing Religion-Health Partnerships in an Appalachian Community” [ Ky., W.Va.]. Public Health Nursing 16 (February): 41-49.

Sink, Alice E. 2000. “The Grit Behind the Miracle: A Community Builds a Hospital” [1944 Catawba Co., N.C.; emergency polio facility]. Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 17 (Spring): 8-11.

Smith, Margaret Charles, and Linda Janet Holmes. 1996. Listen to Me Good: The Life Story of an Alabama Midwife [ Greene County; 91-year-old African American; old-time birthing ways]. Columbus: Ohio State University Press.

Smoot, Richard C. 1995. "Medical History Notes From Appalachia." Appalachian Heritage 23 (Fall): 21-28.

Temple , John, and Joel Beeson, eds. 2004. Cancer Stories: Lessons in Love, Loss, and Hope [photo-essays; journalism students paired with patients]. Morgantown: West Virginia University Press. 219 pp., plus DVD-ROM.

Timah, Nga Joseph. 2000. “Herbal Medicine in Cameroon and North Carolina.” Appalachian Journal 27 (Summer): 354-367.

Toborg, Mary A. 1997. An Assessment of Tobacco Prevention and Control Materials Used in the Appalachian Mountain Region [research supported by National Cancer Inst.]. Landover, Md.: Toborg Associates, Inc. 110 pp.

Toborg, Mary A. 1997. Catalogue of Tobacco Prevention and Control Materials Used in the Appalachian Mountain Region [471 entries: workbooks, videos, factsheets; indexed]. Landover, Md.: Toborg Associates, Inc. 86 leaves, unnumbered.

Verghese, Abraham. 1994. My Own Country: A Doctor's Story. New York: Simon & Schuster. 347 pp.

Wallace, William E. 2000. “In Isolation” [1952 Charleston, W.Va.; childhood memories of a polio sanitarium]. Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 17 (Spring): 3-7.

Weaver, Karol K. 2004. “‘She Knew All the Old Remedies’: Medical Caregiving and Neighborhood Women of the Anthracite Coal Region of Pennsylvania” [ Mount Carmel; immigrants]. Pennsylvania History 71 (Autumn): 421-444.

Wewers, Mary Ellen. 2000. “Tobacco Use Characteristics among Rural Ohio Appalachians.” Journal of Community Health 25 (October): 377-388.

Woodside, Jane Harris. 2000. “When It Comes to Health, Everyone’s an Expert: The Madison County Health Coalition” [N.C.; Kellogg Foundation funds]. Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 17 (Spring): 16-19.

Wright, Jessica Gamponia. 1999. “Physical Activity Among West Virginians: Bridging Barriers to Promote Health” [tables]. In Inside West Virginia: Public Policy Perspectives for the 21 st Century, eds. B. Keith and R. Althouse, 27-39. Morgantown: West Virginia University Press.