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Doctoring the South : southern physicians and everyday medicine in the mid-nineteenth century / Steven M. Stowe.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stowe, Steven M., 1946- author.
- Series:
- Studies in social medicine.
- Studies in Social Medicine
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine--Southern States--History--19th century.
- Medicine.
- Physicians--Southern States--History--19th century.
- Physicians.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (387 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill, North Carolina ; London, [England] : The University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Offering a new perspective on medical progress in the 19th century, Stowe provides an in-depth study of the mid-century culture of everyday medicine in the south. He illuminates an entire world of sickness and remedy, suffering and hope, and the deep ties between medicine and regional culture.
- Contents:
- Choosing medicine
- Doing medicine
- Making medicine.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9798890871138
- 9780807876268
- 0807876267
- 9781469603629
- 1469603624
- OCLC:
- 62157980
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