Article ID: CBB987526420

"The Noblest Roman of them all?": Professional versus Popular Views of America's Country Doctors (2021)

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This essay studies the images, perceptions, and values of the professional medical journals, as well as popular sources such as magazine and films, to show that the country doctor was a contested figure in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The country doctor's image embodied competing ideals of a racialized professional and masculine identity that included both place as well as visions of science. Medical professionals pressed an image in their journals and professional advice books that mapped a celebration of science and its predictive value onto urban places that were enshrined in hospitals and laboratory facilities. The public, while embracing this image, also embraced a second one shown in popular media that glorified the self-sacrificing rural solo practitioner. This practitioner's wisdom came from long contact with patients, he was dedicated to seeing patients in their homes, and his identity was based in the larger needs of the entire community.

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Authors & Contributors
Bashford, Alison
Coleborne, Catharine
Deacon, Harriet Jane
Duffin, Jacalyn M.
Ginzberg, Lori D.
Heyningen, E. Van
Journals
Korean Journal of Medical History
Medical History
Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin Canadienne d'Histoire de la Medecine
Gender and History
Health and History
History of Psychiatry
Publishers
Pennsylvania State University
University of California, Berkeley
Central European University Press
CLEUP
Lehigh University Press
Rodopi
Concepts
Medicine and gender
Physicians; doctors
Medicine and race
Professions and professionalization
Medicine
Doctor-patient relationships
People
Foucault, Michel
Gosse, Philip Henry
Kang, Cheng
Shi, Meiyu
Moore, Aaron McDuffie
O'Sullivan, Eamon
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
16th century
20th century, late
Renaissance
Meiji period (Japan, 1868-1910)
Places
United States
Australia
Germany
Japan
Brazil
Great Britain
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