Science and medicine in the Old South / edited by Ronald L. Numbers and Todd L. Savitt.

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [1989], ©1989.

xii, 370 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Consists primarily of papers from the first and second Barnard-Millington symposia, sponsored by the University of Mississippi Center for the Study of Southern Culture, held at Oxford, Miss. in 1982 and at Jackson, Miss. in 1983.

Science in the Old South : a reappraisal / Ronald L. Numbers and Janet S. Numbers -- Science in the antebellum college : the University of Georgia, 1801-1860 / Thomas G. Dyer -- Scientific societies in the Old South : the Elliott Society and the New Orleans Academy of Sciences / Lester D. Stephens -- Science on the plantation / William K. Scarborough -- Slavery and technology in the antebellum southern iron industry : the case of Buffalo Forge / Charles B. Dew -- Science and theology in the Old South / E. Brooks Holifield -- Disease environments of the antebellum South / K. David Patterson -- Medical men and the ecology of the Old South / James H. Cassedy -- The idea of southern medical distinctiveness : medical knowledge and practice in the Old South / John Harley Warner.

A southern medical reform : the meaning of the antebellum argument for southern medical education / John Harley Warner -- Public health in the Old South / Margaret H. Warner -- Southern madness : the shape of mental health care in the Old South / Samuel B. Thielman -- Unless powerful sick : domestic medicine in the Old South / Elizabeth Barnaby Keeney -- Black magic : folk beliefs of the slave community / Elliott J. Gorn -- Black health on the plantation : masters, slaves, and physicians / Todd L. Savitt.

Includes bibliographical references and index.