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Doctoring the South : southern physicians and everyday medicine in the mid-nineteenth century
- Title
- Doctoring the South : southern physicians and everyday medicine in the mid-nineteenth century / Steven M. Stowe.
- Author
- Stowe, Steven M., 1946-
- Publication
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | R154.5.S68 S76 2004 | Off-site |
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- Description
- x, 373 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Steven M. Stowe offers a new perspective with the first in-depth study of the mid-century culture of everyday medicine in the South. Reading deeply in the personal letters, daybooks, diaries, bedside notes, and published writings of doctors, Stowe illuminates an entire world of sickness and remedy, suffering and hope, and the deep ties between medicine and regional culture."--BOOK JACKET.
- Series Statement
- Studies in social medicine
- Uniform Title
- Studies in social medicine.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : physicians, everyday medicine, and the country orthodox style -- 1. Men, schools, and careers -- 2. The science of all life -- 3. Starting out -- 4. Livelihood -- 5. Bedside -- 6. The lives of others -- 7. Landscape, race, and faith -- 8. Witnessing -- Epilogue : the Civil War and the persistence of the country orthodox style.
- ISBN
- 0807828858 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2004005103
- OCLC
- ocm54776107
- SCSB-5171755
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries