Doctoring the South
Subtitle: Southern Physicians and Everyday Medicine in the Mid-Nineteenth Century (Studies in Social Medicine)
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: December 9, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780807828854
Subjects: Health systems & services; History of medicine; Social history; c 1800 to c 1900; Southern States; Medical / Nursing; Medical; Central Southern states; Southeastern & South Atlantic states; United States - 19th Century; History; United States - State & Local - South; History / United States / 19th Century; bedside practice; social goals; everyday medical practice; medicine and regional culture; "country orthodoxy"; care-giving role; 19th century; Medicine; Physicians
First sentence: This is a study of physicians and medical practice in the southern United States during the mid-nineteenth century.