Doctoring the South : southern physicians and everyday medicine in the mid-nineteenth century / Steven M. Stowe.
Pubblicazione:
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina press, 2004.
Descrizione fisica:
X, 373 p. ; 25 cm
Serie:
Studies in social medicine
Contiene:
Indice: Acknowledgments. Introduction: Physicians, everyday medicine, and the country orthodox style. Pt. 1. Choosing medicine: 1. Men, schools and careers 2. The science of all life 3. Starting out. Pt. 2. Doing medicine: 4. Livelihood 5. Bedside. Pt. 3. Making Medicine: 6. The lives of others 7. Landscape, race and faith 8. Witnessing. Epilogue: The civil war and the persistence of the country orthodox style. Notes. Bibliography, Index
