Doctoring the South: Southern Physicians and Everyday Medicine in the Mid-Nineteenth Century (Studies in Social Medicine)
ISBN-13:
9780807828854
ISBN-10:
0807828858
Edition:
New edition
Author:
Steven M. Stowe
Publication date:
2004
Publisher:
University of North Carolina Press
Format:
Hardcover
392 pages
Category:
United States History
,
Americas History
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ISBN-13:
9780807828854
ISBN-10:
0807828858
Edition:
New edition
Author:
Steven M. Stowe
Publication date:
2004
Publisher:
University of North Carolina Press
Format:
Hardcover
392 pages
Category:
United States History
,
Americas History
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Doctoring the South: Southern Physicians and Everyday Medicine in the Mid-Nineteenth Century (Studies in Social Medicine) (ISBN-13: 9780807828854 and ISBN-10: 0807828858), written by authors
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Offering a new perspective on medical progress in the nineteenth century, Steven M. Stowe provides an in-depth study of the midcentury 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.In a distinct American region where climate, race and slavery, and assumptions about "southernness" profoundly shaped illness and healing in the lives of ordinary people, Stowe argues that southern doctors inhabited a world of skills, medicines, and ideas about sickness that allowed them to play moral, as well as practical, roles in their communities. Looking closely at medical education, bedside encounters, and medicine's larger social aims, he describes a "country orthodoxy" of local, social medical practice that highly valued the "art" of medicine. While not modern in the sense of laboratory science a century later, this country orthodoxy was in its own way modern, Stowe argues, providing a style of caregiving deeply rooted in individual experience, moral values, and a consciousness of place and time.
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