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

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2004], ©2004.

x, 373 pages ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-364) and index.

Introduction: physicians, everyday medicine, and the country orthodox style -- Sickness and health in a southern place -- Physicians: a mid-nineteenth-century profile -- 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" -- 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 -- 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.