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Profound science and elegant literature : imagining doctors in nineteenth-century America /
In 1847, at the first meeting of the American Medical Association, the newly elected president reminded his brethren that the profession, "once venerated," no longer earned homage "spontaneously and universally." The medical marketplace was crowded and competitive; state laws reg...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
©2005.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: what's a doctor, after all?
- 1. Professional medicine, democracy, and the modern body: the discovery of etherization
- 2. Reading the body: Hawthorne's tales of medical ambition
- 3. Carnival bodies and medical professionalism in Melville's fiction
- 4. Class and character: doctors in nineteenth-century periodicals
- 5. Gender, medicine, and literature in postbellum fiction
- 6. Social surgery: physicians on the color line
- Epilogue: from the clinic to the research laboratory: a case study of three stories.