About the book
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.
In a distinct American region where climate, race and slavery, and assumptions about “southernness” profoundly shaped illness and healing in the lives of ordinary people, Stowe argues that southern doctors inhabited a world of skills, medicines, and ideas about sickness that allowed them to play moral, as well as practical, roles in their communities. Looking closely at medical education, bedside encounters, and medicine’s larger social aims, he describes a “country orthodoxy” of local, social medical practice that highly valued the “art” of medicine. While not modern in the sense of laboratory science a century later, this country orthodoxy was in its own way modern, Stowe argues, providing a style of caregiving deeply rooted in individual experience, moral values, and a consciousness of place and time.
Editions of Doctoring the South
- Hardcover
- ISBN 9780807828854
- Paperback
- ISBN 9781469615158
- EBook
- ISBN 9780807876268
- EBook
- ISBN 9781469603629
- EBook
- ISBN 9798893131147
- PDF
- ISBN 9798890871138
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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.
In a distinct American region where climate, race and slavery, and assumptions about “southernness” profoundly shaped illness and healing in the lives of ordinary people, Stowe argues that southern doctors inhabited a world of skills, medicines, and ideas about sickness that allowed them to play moral, as well as practical, roles in their communities. Looking closely at medical education, bedside encounters, and medicine’s larger social aims, he describes a “country orthodoxy” of local, social medical practice that highly valued the “art” of medicine. While not modern in the sense of laboratory science a century later, this country orthodoxy was in its own way modern, Stowe argues, providing a style of caregiving deeply rooted in individual experience, moral values, and a consciousness of place and time.
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What is Doctoring the South about?
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.
In a distinct American region where climate, race and slavery, and assumptions about “southernness” profoundly shaped illness and healing in the lives of ordinary people, Stowe argues that southern doctors inhabited a world of skills, medicines, and ideas about sickness that allowed them to play moral, as well as practical, roles in their communities. Looking closely at medical education, bedside encounters, and medicine’s larger social aims, he describes a “country orthodoxy” of local, social medical practice that highly valued the “art” of medicine. While not modern in the sense of laboratory science a century later, this country orthodoxy was in its own way modern, Stowe argues, providing a style of caregiving deeply rooted in individual experience, moral values, and a consciousness of place and time.
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in Doctoring the South?
Medicine and Nursing > Medicine / Healthcare: general issues / topics > History of medicine
Where can I read a sample of Doctoring the South?
You can read an official preview of the few pages here https://www.book2look.com/book/9780807828854
How long is Doctoring the South and how many pages does it have?
Doctoring the South has 392 page(s)
Is Doctoring the South part of a series, and can it be read as a standalone?
Yes it is a part of series Studies in Social Medicine
Who is/are the Author/s of the book Doctoring the South?
Steven M. Stowe
What are the ISBN numbers for the physical and digital editions?
Doctoring the South is available as hardcover(ISBN 9780807828854) and paperback(ISBN 9781469615158) and ebook(ISBN 9780807876268) and ebook(ISBN 9781469603629) and ebook(ISBN 9798893131147) and pdf(ISBN 9798890871138)
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