Profound Science and Elegant Literature : : Imagining Doctors in Nineteenth-Century America / / Stephanie P. Browner.
In 1847, at the first meeting of the American Medical Association, the newly elected president reminded his brethren that the profession, "once venerated," no longer earned homage "spontaneously and universally." The medical marketplace was crowded and competitive; state laws reg...
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Browner, Stephanie P., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Profound Science and Elegant Literature : Imagining Doctors in Nineteenth-Century America / Stephanie P. Browner. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2013] ©2005 1 online resource (312 p.) : 5 illus. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- 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 restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In 1847, at the first meeting of the American Medical Association, the newly elected president reminded his brethren that the profession, "once venerated," no longer earned homage "spontaneously and universally." The medical marketplace was crowded and competitive; state laws regulating medical practice had been repealed; and professional practitioners were often branded by their lay competitors as aristocrats bent on establishing a health care monopoly. By 1900, the battles were over, and, as the president of AMA had hoped, doctors were now widely venerated as men of profound science, elegant literature, polite accomplishments, and virtue. In fact, by 1900 the doctor had replaced the minister as the most esteemed professional in the United States; disease loomed larger than damnation; and science promised to manage the discord, differences, and excesses that democracy seemed to license.In Profound Science and Elegant Literature, Stephanie Browner charts this trajectory-and demonstrates at the same time that medicine's claims to somatic expertise and managerial talent did not go uncontested. Even as elite physicians founded institutions that made professional medicine's authority visible and legitimate, many others worried about the violence that might attend medicine's drive to mastery and science's equation of rational disinterest with white, educated masculinity. Reading fiction by a wide range of authors beside and against medical texts, Browner looks to the ways in which writers such as Hawthorne, Melville, Holmes, James, Chesnutt, and Jewett inventoried the collateral damage that might be done as science installed its peculiar understanding of the body.A work of impressive interdisciplinary reach, 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. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2022) American literature 19th century History and criticism. Literature and medicine United States History 19th century. Literature and science United States History 19th century. Physicians in literature. American History. LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. bisacsh American Studies. Cultural Studies. Literature. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package Complete Collection 9783110413458 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook-Package Literature 9783110413540 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 9783110459548 print 9780812238259 https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812201482 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812201482 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780812201482/original |
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Frontmatter -- 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 |
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