Mysterious Medicine : The Doctor-Scientist Tales of Hawthorne and Poe /

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Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe were masters of mystery and fantasy, but they also engaged real controversies surrounding individual health, health care practice, and biomedical research in nineteenth-century America. During this volatile era, when mesmerists, phrenologists, and other pseudo...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Dunn, L. Kerr, 1971- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, [2016]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Poe, Edgar Allan, > 1809-1849.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, > 1804-1864.
Poe, Edgar Allan, > 1809-1849
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, > 1804-1864
history of medicine.
Medecine > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Medecine > Histoire.
Medecine dans la litterature.
Science > history
History, 19th Century
History of Medicine
Medicine in Literature
Medicine > History.
Medicine in literature.
United States
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Dr. Bullivant (1831)
  • The haunted quack : a tale of a canal boat (1831)
  • The minister's black veil : a parable (1836)
  • Dr. Heidegger's experiment (1837)
  • Legends of the Province House III : Lady Eleanore's mantle (1838)
  • The birthmark (1843)
  • Egotism; or, The bosom serpent (1843)
  • Rappaccini's daughter (1844)
  • Ethan Brand : a chapter from an abortive romance (1852)
  • Sonnet-to science (1829)
  • Berenice (1835)
  • The fall of the House of Usher (1839)
  • The black cat (1843)
  • A tale of the Ragged Mountains (1844)
  • The premature burial (1844)
  • Mesmeric revelation (1844)
  • Some words with a mummy (1845)
  • The system of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether (1845)
  • The facts in the case of M. Valdemar (1845).

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