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Doctoring the South - Southern Physicians and Everyday Medicine in the Mid-Nineteenth Century (Paperback, New edition)
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Doctoring the South - Southern Physicians and Everyday Medicine in the Mid-Nineteenth Century (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Studies in Social Medicine
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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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