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Doctoring the South: Southern Physicians and Everyday Medicine in the Mid-Nineteenth Century

Doctoring the South: Southern Physicians and Everyday Medicine in the Mid-Nineteenth Century

Stowe, Steven M.

Paperback

Series: Studies in Social Medicine

Medical Reference19th Century United States HistoryRegional: South

ISBN10: 1469615150
ISBN13: 9781469615158
Publisher: Univ Of North Carolina Pr
Published: Feb 1 2014
Pages: 392
Weight: 1.31
Height: 0.86 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
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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