Title Doctoring the South : southern physicians and everyday medicine in the mid-nineteenth century / Steven M. Stowe

Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2004 ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (x, 373 pages) Series Studies in social medicine Studies in social medicine. Contents 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 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Medicine -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century Physicians -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century Physician and patient. Clinical Medicine -- history History, 19th Century Physician-Patient Relations Physician's Role -- history Physicians -- history MEDICAL -- History. Physician and patient Medicine Physicians SUBJECT Southeastern United States Subject Southern States Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book ISBN 0807876267 9780807876268 9781469603629 1469603624

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