“To Support the Southern Medical Public”: The Medical College of Georgia as a Southern Information Agency, 1828–1861

Authors

Brenton Stewart, Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical CollegeFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

11-2015

Abstract

A traditional perspective situates nineteenth-century southern academic library culture as a late nineteenth-century phenomenon. This article challenges that assertion and traditional beliefs about the South's indifference to cultural advancement by examining the print culture of one of the South's leading educational institutions, the Medical College of Georgia. An antebellum in­formation agency, the Medical College of Georgia leveraged its medical li­brary, museum, and journal to transform medical information production, dissemination, and consumption in the South and represents an important symbol of southern modernity. This article presents a distinct analysis of early nineteenth-century southern medicoscientific information culture.

Publication Source (Journal or Book title)

Information & Culture

First Page

554

Last Page

577

Recommended Citation

Stewart, J. Brenton. "“To Support the Southern Medical Public”: The Medical College of Georgia as a Southern Information Agency, 1828–1861." Information & Culture 50, no. 4 (2015): 554-577.