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Title:
Doctoring the South : southern physicians and everyday medicine in the mid-nineteenth century
Author:
Stowe, Steven M., 1946-
ISBN:
9780807876268

9781469603629
Publication Information:
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (x, 373 pages).
Series:
Studies in social medicine

Studies in social medicine.
Abstract:
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.
Subject Term:
Medicine -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.

Physicians -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.

Clinical Medicine -- history.

Physicians -- history.

History, 19th Century.

Physician's Role -- history.

Physician-Patient Relations.
Electronic Access:
http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9780807876268_stowe
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