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

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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 medic...

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Autor principal: Stowe, Steven M., 1946-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Physicians.
Medicine.
Physician and patient.
MEDICAL > History.
Relations medecin-patient.
Medecine > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Medecins > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Medecine > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Physicians > history
Physician's Role > history
Physician-Patient Relations
History, 19th Century
Clinical Medicine > history
Physicians > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Medicine > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Southern States.
Southeastern United States
History
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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