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" Doctoring the South : "
Steven M. Stowe.
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BL
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1004080
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b758450
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Stowe, Steven M.,1946-
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Doctoring the South : : southern physicians and everyday medicine in the mid-nineteenth century /\ Steven M. Stowe.
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Chapel Hill :: University of North Carolina Press,, 2004.
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, ©2004
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Studies in social medicine
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1 online resource (x, 373 pages)
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0807876267
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: 1469603624
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: 9781469603629
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0807828858
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9780807828854
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9781469615158
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction: Physicians, everyday medicine, and the country orthodox style -- Sickness and health in a Southern place -- Physicians: a mid-19th-century profile -- pt. 1. CHOOSING MEDICINE. Men, schools and careers: Family, intellect, and the manly choice -- Medical schools and reform: stretching orthodoxy -- The Porous School: apprenticeship -- The Porous School: city life and a man's world -- The science of all life: Lectures: synthesis and practice -- Clinics: foreign bodies and appended charity -- Anatomy: opened bodies and the moral urge -- The medical thesis: enlightenments -- Starting out: New degree, fresh doubts -- Calculation for survival -- The community chooses its own -- First patients, "monster" disease, and "inward satisfaction" -- pt. 2. DOING MEDICINE. Livelihood; Logging patients, seeing race -- Self-interest and moral judgment -- Health talk across the racial divide -- Rounds -- Livelihood, subjectivity, and the country orthodox style -- Bedside: Summoned to the social bedside -- Seeing bodies: the physical and the social -- Changing bodies: "Experience" and the charm of drugs -- Borrowing, experimenting, and violence -- The shadow of bedside practice -- pt. 3. MAKING MEDICINE. The lives of others: Co-attendance and conflict -- Writing orthodoxy at the bedside -- John Knox: effacing pain -- Charles Hentz: making case-time -- Courtney Clark: looking for connections -- Landscape, race, and faith: Landscapes of knowledge -- Slavery and race -- Faith: knowing what "passeth understanding" -- Witnessing: Case narratives: orthodoxy's stories -- Dr. Patteson: technique and transcendence -- Dr. Dowler: scientist and community -- Dr. Yandell: The eclipse of the personal -- Dr. Bassett: the eclipse of the professional -- Epilogue: The Civil War and the persistence of the country orthodox style.
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Steven M. Stowe provides an in-depth study of the midcentury culture of everyday medicine in the South. Reading the personal letters, day-books, diaries, bedside notes, and published writings of doctors, Stowe illuminates a world of sickness and remedy, suffering and hope, and the ties between medicine and regional culture.
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Medicine-- Southern States-- History-- 19th century.
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Physicians-- Southern States-- History-- 19th century.
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Clinical Medicine-- history.
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History, 19th Century.
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Physician-Patient Relations.
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Physician's Role-- history.
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Physicians-- history.
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MEDICAL-- History.
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Medicine.
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Physicians.
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Southeastern United States.
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Southern States.
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| Dewey Classification
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610/.975/09034
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R154.5.S68S76 2004eb
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WZ 70 AS9S892d 2004
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