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

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.

General

Imprint:	The University of North Carolina Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Studies in Social Medicine
Release date:	February 2014
First published:	February 2014
Authors:	Steven M. Stowe
Dimensions:	235 x 156 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	392
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-4696-1515-8
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > History of medicine Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900 Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > History > American history > General Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
LSN:	1-4696-1515-0
Barcode:	9781469615158

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