Energize Eckley: Karol Weaver, Medical Caregiving in the Anthracite Region: A Curated Walking Tour of Eckley

Anthracite mining was one of the most dangerous and accident-prone industries in U.S. history, and patchtowns were home to numerous medical caregivers who tended to the sick and injured. Medical historian Dr. Karol Weaver will lead a curated walking tour of Eckley that introduces you to a typical patchtown's medical workers, from folk healers and midwives to company doctors and snake oil salesmen.

Karol Kovalovich Weaver is a Professor at Susquehanna University (Selinsgrove, PA). She teaches US history , women's history, and the history of medicine. She is the author of two books, Medical Revolutionaries: The Enslaved Healers of Eighteenth-Century Saint Domingue (University of Illinois Press) and Medical Caregiving and Identity in Pennsylvania's Anthracite Region, 1880-2000 (The Pennsylvania State University Press). Her current research focuses on the history of nursing in the ACR.

Energize Eckley is a speaker series bringing today's preeminent scholars to Eckley Miners' Village to rethink the anthracite region's past, present, and future. Ticket sales support the design of Eckley's planned interdisciplinary research, learning & discovery center.

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