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Oral history interview with Carroll Lupton, April 2, 1980 interview H-0028, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

Summary: North Carolina doctor Carroll Lupton discusses his medical practice in Burlington, North Carolina, focusing primarily on the 1930s. Lupton returned to North Carolina to set up his general medical practice after completing his internship in New Orleans in 1933. He describes the economic conditions in the South during the Great Depression and offers anecdotes about the kinds of hardships people faced. Because of his interactions with his patients, Lupton's memories offer a unique lens for understanding the relationships and interactions among people in the working community. Lupton explains how he did his best to provide medical care to poor working class families in Burlington. He describes common medical procedures that he performed, such as tonsillectomies, and popular medical remedies that were typically used at the time. Special attention is given to the medical treatment of pregnant women and of venereal disease; Lupton describes the prominent role of Granny Lewis, the local midwife, in delivering babies in Burlington.

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  • Physical Description: electronic resource
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    1 online resource
  • Edition: Electronic edition
  • Publisher: [Chapel Hill, N.C.] : University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2006.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Duration: 01:08:25.
Interview participants: Carroll Lupton, interviewee; Mary Murphy, interviewer.
Text encoded by Mike Millner. Sound recordings digitized by Steve Weiss.
This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digital library, Documenting the American South. It is a part of the collection Oral histories of the American South.
Title from menu page (viewed on November 14, 2007).
Type of Computer File or Data Note:
Text (HTML and XML/TEI source file) and audio (MP3); 2 files: ca. 90.8 kilobytes, 125 megabytes.
Original Version Note:
Original version: Southern Oral History Program Collection, (#4007), Series H, Piedmont industrialization, 1974-1980, interview H-0028, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Original transcript: 26 p.
Funding Information Note:
Funding from the Institute for Museum and Library Services supported the electronic publication of this interview.
System Details Note:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
System requirements: Web browser with Javascript enabled and multimedia player.
Subject:
Lupton, Carroll 1907-1997 Interviews
Medicine Practice North Carolina 20th century
Midwives North Carolina
Physicians North Carolina Interviews
Physicians North Carolina 20th century
Burlington (N.C.) Social life and customs
Genre:
Oral histories.

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