عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
PS217.P48 B76 2005
PS217
.
P48
B76
2005
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
(Number (ISBN
0812238257 (acid-free paper)
(Number (ISBN
9780812238259 (acid-free paper)
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Country Code
bnb
Number
b428068
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Profound science and elegant literature :
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
imagining doctors in nineteenth-century America /
First Statement of Responsibility
Stephanie P. Browner.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Philadelphia :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
University of Pennsylvania Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
c2005.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
304 p. :
Other Physical Details
ill. ;
Dimensions
24 cm.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-287) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
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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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
"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.
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Profound science and elegant literature.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
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.
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
Number
813/
.
3093561
Edition
22
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
PS217
.
P48
Book number
B76
2005
OTHER CLASS NUMBERS
Class number
2005
C-642
Class number
WZ
330
Book Number
B884p
2005
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Browner, Stephanie P.
ORIGINATING SOURCE
Date of Transaction
20120206013945.0
ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Electronic name
مطالعه متن کتاب [Book]
Y
