Doctoring the South : southern physicians and everyday medicine in the mid-nineteenth century /
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...
Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
2004.
©2004 |
Collection: | Studies in social medicine.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Résumé: | 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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Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (x, 373 pages) |
Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 0807876267 9780807876268 9781469603629 1469603624 |