Interview with Dora Fields, April 30, 1979
Project: Frontier Nursing Service Oral History Project
Interview Summary
Dora Fields was born in Perry County, Kentucky in 1907. She completed the fourth grade before beginning to do housework for neighboring families. Fields also discusses her mother's work as a "granny woman," or midwife. The informant relates various local beliefs and comments upon general social conditions.Interview Accession
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Appalachian Region--Social conditions Childbirth Country life Leslie County (Ky.)--Politics and government Medical care--Appalachian Region Midwifery--Appalachian Region Midwives--Appalachian Region Perry County (Ky.) Rural conditions Rural health services Traditional medicine Distilling, IllicitInterview Rights
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Fields, Dora Interview by Sadie W. Stidham. 30 Apr. 1979. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Fields, D. (1979, April 30). Interview by S. W. Stidham. Frontier Nursing Service Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Fields, Dora, interview by Sadie W. Stidham. April 30, 1979, Frontier Nursing Service Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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