Title: Profound science and elegant literature
First published: December 2004
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.
Subjects: History and criticism, History, Physicians in literature, Physicians, American literature, Medicine in literature, Literature and medicine, Literature and science, Medical fiction, American, American Medical fiction, American literature, history and criticism, 19th century, History, 19th Century
Places: United States
Time periods: 19th century
LC classification: PS217.P48 B76 2005