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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stowe, Steven M., 1946-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (392 pages).
ISBN:9781469603629

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