Science and medicine in the Old South
By: edited by Ronald L. Numbers and Todd L. Savitt.
Contributors: Numbers, Ronald L.; Savitt, Todd Lee, 1943-; University of Mississippi. Center for the Study of Southern Culture.
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 370
Subjects: Medicine -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses; Science -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses; History of Medicine, 19th Cent. -- United States -- congresses; Science -- history -- United States -- congresses
Description: Science in the Old South: a reappraisal / Ronald L. Numbers and Janet S. Numbers -- Science in the antebellum college: the University of Georgia, 1801-1860 / Thomas G. Dyer -- Scientific societies in the Old South / Lester D. Stephens -- Science on the plantation / William K. Scarborough -- Slavery and technology in the antebellum southern iron industry / Charles B. Dew -- Science and theology in the Old South / E. Brooks Holifield -- Disease environments of the antebellum South / K. David Patterson -- Medical men and the ecology of the Old South / James H. Cassedy -- The idea of southern medical distinctiveness / John Harley Warner -- A southern medical reform / John Harley Warner -- Public health in the Old South / Margaret H. Warner -- Southern madness / Samuel B. Thielman -- Unless powerful sick / Elizabeth Barnaby Keeney -- Black magic / Elliott J. Gorn -- Black health on the plantation / Todd L. Savitt.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Consists primarily of papers from the first and second Barnard-Millington symposia, sponsored by the University of Mississippi Center for the Study of Southern Culture, held at Oxford, Miss. in 1982 and at Jackson, Miss. in 1983.