TY  - BOOK
AU  - Browner,Stephanie P.
TI  - Profound Science and Elegant Literature: Imagining Doctors in Nineteenth-Century America
SN  - 9780812201482
AV  - PS217.P48 -- B76 2005eb 
U1  - 813/.3093561 
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Philadelphia
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press
KW  - American literature-19th century-History and criticism
KW  - Physicians in literature
KW  - Literature and medicine-United States-History-19th century
KW  - Literature and science-United States-History-19th century
KW  - Medical fiction, American-History and criticism
KW  - Physicians-United States
KW  - Medicine in literature
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: What's a Doctor, After All? -- 1. Professional Medicine, Democracy, and the Modern Body: The Discovery of Etherization -- 2. Reading the Body: Hawthorne's Tales of Medical Ambition -- 3. Carnival Bodies and Medical Professionalism in Melville's Fiction -- 4. Class and Character: Doctors in Nineteenth-Century Periodicals -- 5. Gender, Medicine, and Literature in Postbellum Fiction -- 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Acknowledgments
N2  - By the latter part of the nineteenth century, the physician had supplanted the clergyman as the nation's most esteemed professional, as the body had seemingly replaced the soul as a person's most prized possession. Stephanie Browner looks at this era of change
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