Doctoring the South: Southern Physicians and Everyday Medicine in the Mid-Nineteenth Century

by Steven M. Stowe

Book Overview

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.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469615150
• ISBN13: 9781469615158
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"