| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.1

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Steven M. Stowe. Doctoring the South: Southern Physicians and Everyday Medicine in Mid-Nineteenth Century. (Studies in Social Medicine.) Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2004. Pp. x, 373. $45.00.

This book by Steven M. Stowe is pathbreaking in many respects, not the least of which is the contextual change in what has been traditionally identified as medical orthodoxy. Not only does the author bring new insight to the orthodox tradition of book learning, apprenticeship, and medical school education for the southern medical student, he adds to it the dimension of self and place which he aptly calls "country orthodoxy." In other words, he views southern doctoring as being as much the product of the physician's allegiance to the South as a region (i.e. the focus on personal livelihood, neighbors and family caregivers, local lore, and practical care) as it is the product of the physician's more formal education. Preferring to focus on the ordinary physician in his study, Stowe views country orthodoxy as shaped by the recurring tensions between the ideals of professional learnedness and the physician's daily work habits. It was the nexus of this tension, where slavery, racial order, ecology, culture, climate, diet, and family intersect, that gave the southern doctor his unique power and professional image.

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