Profound science and elegant literature
Subtitle: imagining doctors in nineteenth-century America
By: Stephanie P. Browner.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
Subjects: 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.
Description: "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."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-287) and index.