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.

List of contents

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

About the author

Sari Altschuler

Product details

• Authors: Sari Altschuler
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2022
• EAN: 9780812225204
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-2520-4
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Early American Studies
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies