Screen LibraryProfound science and elegant literature : imagining doctors in nineteenth-century america /
By the latter part of the nineteenth century, the physician had supplanted the clergyman as the nation's most esteemed professional, as the body had seemingly replaced the soul as a person's most prized possession. Stephanie Browner looks at this era of change.
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University of Pennsylvania Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Philadelphia, Pa. : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2013] ©2005 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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By the latter part of the nineteenth century, the physician had supplanted the clergyman as the nation's most esteemed professional, as the body had seemingly replaced the soul as a person's most prized possession. Stephanie Browner looks at this era of change. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource : 5 illus. |
| ISBN: | 9780812201482 |
| Index Number: | PS217 |
| CLC: | I712.064 |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: What's a Doctor, After All? -- Chapter 1 Professional Medicine, Democracy, and the Modern Body: The Discovery of Etherization -- Chapter 2 Reading the Body: Hawthorne's Tales of Medical Ambition -- Chapter 3 Carnival Bodies and Medical Professionalism in Melville's Fiction -- Chapter 4 Class and Character: Doctors in Nineteenth-Century Periodicals -- Chapter 5 Gender, Medicine, and Literature in Postbellum Fiction -- Chapter 6 Social Surgery: Physicians on the Color Line -- Epilogue: From the Clinic to the Research Laboratory: A Case Study of Three Stories -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments |