LEADER 05126nam 2200745Ia 450 001 9910817188203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8122-0148-5 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812201482 035 $a(CKB)2670000000418330 035 $a(OCoLC)681279282 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10748751 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000981279 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11582133 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000981279 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10971551 035 $a(PQKB)11466106 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse26818 035 $a(DE-B1597)449001 035 $a(OCoLC)979968247 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812201482 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442212 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10748751 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL682332 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442212 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000418330 100 $a20040615d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aProfound science and elegant literature $eimagining doctors in nineteenth-century America /$fStephanie P. Browner 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2005 215 $a1 online resource (313 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a1-322-51050-4 311 0 $a0-8122-3825-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [271]-287) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction: What's a Doctor, After All? --$tChapter 1 Professional Medicine, Democracy, and the Modern Body: The Discovery of Etherization --$tChapter 2 Reading the Body: Hawthorne's Tales of Medical Ambition --$tChapter 3 Carnival Bodies and Medical Professionalism in Melville's Fiction --$tChapter 4 Class and Character: Doctors in Nineteenth-Century Periodicals --$tChapter 5 Gender, Medicine, and Literature in Postbellum Fiction --$tChapter 6 Social Surgery: Physicians on the Color Line --$tEpilogue: From the Clinic to the Research Laboratory: A Case Study of Three Stories --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aIn 1847, at the first meeting of the American Medical Association, the newly elected president reminded his brethren that the profession, "once venerated," no longer earned homage "spontaneously and universally." The medical marketplace was crowded and competitive; state laws regulating medical practice had been repealed; and professional practitioners were often branded by their lay competitors as aristocrats bent on establishing a health care monopoly. By 1900, the battles were over, and, as the president of AMA had hoped, doctors were now widely venerated as men of profound science, elegant literature, polite accomplishments, and virtue. In fact, by 1900 the doctor had replaced the minister as the most esteemed professional in the United States; disease loomed larger than damnation; and science promised to manage the discord, differences, and excesses that democracy seemed to license. In Profound Science and Elegant Literature, Stephanie Browner charts this trajectory-and demonstrates at the same time that medicine's claims to somatic expertise and managerial talent did not go uncontested. Even as elite physicians founded institutions that made professional medicine's authority visible and legitimate, many others worried about the violence that might attend medicine's drive to mastery and science's equation of rational disinterest with white, educated masculinity. Reading fiction by a wide range of authors beside and against medical texts, Browner looks to the ways in which writers such as Hawthorne, Melville, Holmes, James, Chesnutt, and Jewett inventoried the collateral damage that might be done as science installed its peculiar understanding of the body. A work of impressive interdisciplinary reach, 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. 606 $aAmerican literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPhysicians in literature 606 $aLiterature and medicine$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aLiterature and science$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aMedical fiction, American$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPhysicians$zUnited States 606 $aMedicine in literature 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPhysicians in literature. 615 0$aLiterature and medicine$xHistory 615 0$aLiterature and science$xHistory 615 0$aMedical fiction, American$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPhysicians 615 0$aMedicine in literature. 676 $a813/.3093561 700 $aBrowner$b Stephanie P$01703519 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910817188203321 996 $aProfound science and elegant literature$94088795 997 $aUNINA