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Medicine among the early Mormons
Western folklore • 18 • Published In 1959 • Pages: 157-164
By: Noall, Claire Augusta.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source concerns early Mormon attitudes toward medicine. The author discusses the attitudes of Joseph Smith toward doctors and medicines, the change of attitude over time, and some notable Mormon doctors and midwives.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Pharmaceuticals
- Gender status
- Medical care
- Medical personnel
- Religious intolerance and martyrs
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Mormons
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2018
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southwest and Basin
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Writer
- Indigenous Person
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Marlene Martin ; 1978
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1937
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1812-1882
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Claire Noall
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 44049420
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mormons