Profound Science and Elegant Literature : Imagining Doctors in Nineteenth-Century America.

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.

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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