Medical Imagination - Literature and Health in the Early United States

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Sari Altschuler is Associate Professor of English and Associate Director of the Northeastern Humanities Center at Northeastern University.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Sari Altschuler
• Verlag: University of pennsylvania pr
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 28.02.2022
• EAN: 9780812225204
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-2520-4
• Seiten: 312
• Serie: Early American Studies
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft