Profound science and elegant literature [[electronic resource] ] : imagining doctors in nineteenth-century America / / Stephanie P. Browner |
Autore | Browner Stephanie P |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (313 p.) |
Disciplina | 813/.3093561 |
Soggetto topico |
American literature - 19th century - History and criticism
Physicians in literature Literature and medicine - United States - History - 19th century Literature and science - United States - History - 19th century Medical fiction, American - History and criticism Physicians - United States Medicine in literature |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-8122-0148-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction: What's a Doctor, After All? -- Chapter 1 Professional Medicine, Democracy, and the Modern Body: The Discovery of Etherization -- Chapter 2 Reading the Body: Hawthorne's Tales of Medical Ambition -- Chapter 3 Carnival Bodies and Medical Professionalism in Melville's Fiction -- Chapter 4 Class and Character: Doctors in Nineteenth-Century Periodicals -- Chapter 5 Gender, Medicine, and Literature in Postbellum Fiction -- Chapter 6 Social Surgery: Physicians on the Color Line -- Epilogue: From the Clinic to the Research Laboratory: A Case Study of Three Stories -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910462644903321 |
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Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2005 | ||
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Profound science and elegant literature [[electronic resource] ] : imagining doctors in nineteenth-century America / / Stephanie P. Browner |
Autore | Browner Stephanie P |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (313 p.) |
Disciplina | 813/.3093561 |
Soggetto topico |
American literature - 19th century - History and criticism
Physicians in literature Literature and medicine - United States - History - 19th century Literature and science - United States - History - 19th century Medical fiction, American - History and criticism Physicians - United States Medicine in literature |
Soggetto non controllato |
American History
American Studies Cultural Studies Literature |
ISBN | 0-8122-0148-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction: What's a Doctor, After All? -- Chapter 1 Professional Medicine, Democracy, and the Modern Body: The Discovery of Etherization -- Chapter 2 Reading the Body: Hawthorne's Tales of Medical Ambition -- Chapter 3 Carnival Bodies and Medical Professionalism in Melville's Fiction -- Chapter 4 Class and Character: Doctors in Nineteenth-Century Periodicals -- Chapter 5 Gender, Medicine, and Literature in Postbellum Fiction -- Chapter 6 Social Surgery: Physicians on the Color Line -- Epilogue: From the Clinic to the Research Laboratory: A Case Study of Three Stories -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910787519403321 |
Browner Stephanie P
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Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2005 | ||
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Profound science and elegant literature : imagining doctors in nineteenth-century America / / Stephanie P. Browner |
Autore | Browner Stephanie P |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (313 p.) |
Disciplina | 813/.3093561 |
Soggetto topico |
American literature - 19th century - History and criticism
Physicians in literature Literature and medicine - United States - History - 19th century Literature and science - United States - History - 19th century Medical fiction, American - History and criticism Physicians - United States Medicine in literature |
ISBN | 0-8122-0148-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction: What's a Doctor, After All? -- Chapter 1 Professional Medicine, Democracy, and the Modern Body: The Discovery of Etherization -- Chapter 2 Reading the Body: Hawthorne's Tales of Medical Ambition -- Chapter 3 Carnival Bodies and Medical Professionalism in Melville's Fiction -- Chapter 4 Class and Character: Doctors in Nineteenth-Century Periodicals -- Chapter 5 Gender, Medicine, and Literature in Postbellum Fiction -- Chapter 6 Social Surgery: Physicians on the Color Line -- Epilogue: From the Clinic to the Research Laboratory: A Case Study of Three Stories -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910817188203321 |
Browner Stephanie P
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Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2005 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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