Rural Healthcare Oral History Project
This collection documents changes in healthcare during the twentieth century in the rural counties of Pulaski, Wayne, and McCreary. Interviewees discuss the gradual change in the rural healthcare system from in-home and community based-care to a health system administered by medical professionals in hospitals and doctors’ offices. The interviews reveal that many residents miss the personal, intimate aspects of rural health care. Other topics include modern medical technology, the escalating costs of modern healthcare, the old barter system of payment, doctors in politics, the effect of the federal and state government on changes in healthcare, Black physicians, folk medicine, and home remedies. Interviewees are residents from various socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds, both in and out of the healthcare field, including physicians, nurses, midwives, and healthcare workers.
Interviews
- Oral History Interview with John Garner
- Oral History Interview with Audrey Morrow
- Oral History Interview with Virgil Bell
- Oral History Interview with James Burgess
- Oral History Interview with Dr. E.T. Smith
- Oral History Interview with Oscar Bell
- Oral History Interview with Roscoe Coffey
- Oral History Interview with Mary W. Duncan Part II
- Oral History Interview with Clark L. Stonewall
- Oral History Interview with Pauline Simpson
- Oral History Interview with Effe Gertrude Humble
- Oral History Interview with Dr. William Robert Kelsay Jr.
- Oral History Interview with Lena Vanover Stephens
- Oral History Interview with Dr. M.A. Shepherd
- Oral History Interview with Mary W. Duncan Part III
- Oral History Interview with Mary W. Duncan Part I
- Oral History Interview with Jesse Jones & Emma Jones