Medical Imagination - Literature and Health in the Early United States

Informationen zum Autor Sari Altschuler is Associate Professor of English and Associate Director of the Northeastern Humanities Center at Northeastern University. Klappentext Sari Altschuler teaches English at Northeastern University. Zusammenfassung 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

Product details

• Authors: Sari Altschuler
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2018
• EAN: 9780812249866
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-4986-6
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Early American Studies; Early American Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General