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- Book Title
- The Medical Imagination: Literature and Health in the Early Unite
- ISBN
- 9780812249866
- Publication Name
- Medical Imagination : Literature and Health in the Early United States
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Series
- Early American Studies
- Publication Year
- 2018
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 23.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 312 Pages
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The Medical Imagination traces the practice of using imagination and literature to craft, test, and implement theories of health in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century America. This history of imaginative experimentation provides a usable past for conversations about the role of the humanities in health research and practice today.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN-10
0812249860
ISBN-13
9780812249866
eBay Product ID (ePID)
239717776
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Medical Imagination : Literature and Health in the Early United States
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Series
Early American Studies
Publication Year
2018
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
312 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
23.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps217.M44a45 2018
Reviews
The Medical Imagination is an impressively interdisciplinary work . . . The questions that the book raises about the past and present intersections of medicine and literature and the potential of interdisciplinary study are fascinating and pressing., The Medical Imagination is a thorough, deeply researched investigation into the role of literature in medical knowledge from Benjamin Rush at the end of the eighteenth century to Oliver Wendell Holmes and S. Weir Mitchell before the Civil War . . . Altschuler brings new works into the well-established field of literature and medicine and fresh insights to oft-studied works . . . a major contribution to historical and literary studies., " The Medical Imagination is a thorough, deeply researched investigation into the role of literature in medical knowledge from Benjamin Rush at the end of the eighteenth century to Oliver Wendell Holmes and S. Weir Mitchell before the Civil War . . . Altschuler brings new works into the well-established field of literature and medicine and fresh insights to oft-studied works . . . a major contribution to historical and literary studies."-- The Journal of American History, "This elegant, deeply researched, and original study engages the recent critical turn toward the intersection of literature and science, but what's more, it manifests the very synergy of humanism and factuality that it takes as its subject. Readers will find themselves equally drawn to the excitements of literary performance and the operating theater, and will be absorbed by complex work of the doctor-poets who plumbed the persistent mysteries of the human body."--Kathleen Donegan, University of California, Berkeley, In this ground-breaking work of historical research and reframing, Sari Altschuler foregrounds the central role of the imagination in the production of medical knowledge in nineteenth-century America., The Medical Imagination is an extraordinary intervention in the fields of the medical humanities, American literary studies, and American social and cultural history. Sari Altschuler has mastered and synthesized a large body of research, which she delivers with panache and passion. This multidisciplinary book puts her on the front lines of current scholarly discourse, teaching us the lesson that both medical history and literary history are the poorer for ignoring each other., " The Medical Imagination is an extraordinary intervention in the fields of the medical humanities, American literary studies, and American social and cultural history. Sari Altschuler has mastered and synthesized a large body of research, which she delivers with panache and passion. This multidisciplinary book puts her on the front lines of current scholarly discourse, teaching us the lesson that both medical history and literary history are the poorer for ignoring each other."--Laura Dassow Walls, University of Notre Dame, In the landscape of modern academia, the humanities and medical fields exist on opposite sides of a disciplinary chasm. But this was not always the case, Sari Altschuler reveals in her imaginative, interdisciplinary work...Altschuler has identified a rich and persistent tradition in medical literature .Her readings showcase the smart ways that literary forms can be unwound to reveal engagement with medical and scientific thought., In this impressive book, Altschuler exemplifies the kind of critical and 'creative analytical thinking' that great thinkers have used to synthesise trends and concepts from a variety of disciplines. In doing so, she models the kind of interdisciplinary-and, yes, imaginative-approach to health and health care that is needed to revolutionise a fragmented system today., "In this ground-breaking work of historical research and reframing, Sari Altschuler foregrounds the central role of the imagination in the production of medical knowledge in nineteenth-century America."-- Nineteenth-Century Literature, This elegant, deeply researched, and original study engages the recent critical turn toward the intersection of literature and science, but what's more, it manifests the very synergy of humanism and factuality that it takes as its subject. Readers will find themselves equally drawn to the excitements of literary performance and the operating theater, and will be absorbed by complex work of the doctor-poets who plumbed the persistent mysteries of the human body.
Table of Content
Introduction Chapter 1. Revolution Chapter 2. Yellow Fever Chapter 3. Cholera Chapter 4. Difference Chapter 5. Anesthesia Conclusion. Humanistic Inquiry in Medicine, Then and Now Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
Copyright Date
2018
Topic
Subjects & Themes / Historical events, General, American / General
Lccn
2017-028650
Dewey Decimal
810.9356109033
Intended Audience
College Audience
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Literary Criticism, Medical
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