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PS217.P48 B76 2005
PS217
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P48
B76
2005
کتابخانه
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0812238257 (acid-free paper)
9780812238259 (acid-free paper)
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Profound science and elegant literature :
[Book]
imagining doctors in nineteenth-century America /
Stephanie P. Browner.
Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
c2005.
304 p. :
ill. ;
24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-287) and index.
Introduction: what's a doctor, after all? -- Professional medicine, democracy, and the modern body: the discovery of etherization -- Reading the body: Hawthorne's tales of medical ambition -- Carnival bodies and medical professionalism in Melville's fiction -- Class and character: doctors in nineteenth-century periodicals -- Gender, medicine, and literature in postbellum fiction -- Social surgery: physicians on the color line -- Epilogue: from the clinic to the research laboratory: a case study of three stories.
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"Profound Science and Elegant Literature documents both the extraordinary rise of professional medicine in the United States and the aesthetic imperative to make the body meaningful that led many American writers to resist the medicalized body."--BOOK JACKET.
Profound science and elegant literature.
American literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
Literature and medicine-- United States-- History-- 19th century.
Literature and science-- United States-- History-- 19th century.
Medical fiction, American-- History and criticism.
Medicine in literature.
Physicians in literature.
Physicians-- United States.
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