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| Repository: | Appalachian State University W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection |
| Creator: | Florin, John W. |
| Title: | Collection 411. Proposed Midwifery Study Collection of Papers, 1980 |
| Language of Material: | Material in English |
| Location: | For current information on the location of these materials, please consult Appalachian State University. |
| Abstract: | Proposed Midwifery Study Collection of Papers consists of John W. Florin's grant proposal for an academic study of the decline of midwifery in six northwestern North Carolina counties during the 1940-1960s. |
| Extent: | 0.0001 linear feet, 1 archival folder |
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[Identification of item], Collection 411. Proposed Midwifery Study Collection of Papers, W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina, NC, USA.
This collection was originally housed in Collection 00-19. Appalachian Regional Articles and Papers Collection. Its accession number is 08-18. It opened to the public in June 2008.
Processed by Kathryn Staley, June, 2008
Encoded by Kathryn Staley, June, 2008
John William Florin earned his B.A. in History and Geography from the University of Kansas in 1964 and a M.A. (1966) and Ph.D. (1971) in Geography from Pennsylvania State University. He joined the Geography Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1969. His teaching and research interests focus on United States historical and cultural geography, population, and medical geography. In 1987, he became the department chair and, in 1994, the Executive Director of UNC-CH's Office of Study Abroad.
Florin's publications include Death in New England: Regional Variations in Mortality (1971), The Changing Population of the Southeast (1973), Medical Geography (1988) with Melinda Meade and Wilbert Gesler, Regional Landscapes of the United States and Canada (1992) with Steve Birdsall, Geographic Methods of Health Services Research (1994), and Atlas of American Agriculture: The American Cornucopia (1995) with Richard Pillsbury.
| Midwives -- North Carolina -- Study |
