An edition of Profound science and elegant literature (2004)
Profound Science And Elegant Literature
Imagining Doctors In Nineteenth-Century America
By Stephanie P. Browner
Publish Date
December 2004
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Language
eng
Pages
304
Description:
"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."--Jacket.
subjects: History and criticism, History, Physicians in literature, Physicians, American literature, Medicine in literature, Literature and medicine, Literature and science, Medical fiction, American, American Medical fiction, American literature, history and criticism, 19th century, History, 19th Century
Places: United States
Times: 19th century