Doctoring the South
Subtitle: southern physicians and everyday medicine in the mid-nineteenth century
By: Steven M. Stowe.
Series: Studies in social medicine
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 373
Subjects: Medicine -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.; Physicians -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
Description: Offering a new perspective on medical progress in the 19th century, Stowe provides an in-depth study of the mid-century culture of everyday medicine in the south. He illuminates an entire world of sickness and remedy, suffering and hope, and the deep ties between medicine and regional culture.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Choosing medicine; title: Doing medicine; title: Making medicine.