The Medical Imagination : : Literature and Health in the Early United States / / Sari Altschuler.
In 1872, Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, "Science does not know its debt to imagination," words that still ring true in the worlds of health and health care today. The checklists and clinical algorithms of modern medicine leave little space for imagination, and yet we depend on creativity and i...
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Altschuler, Sari, author. The Medical Imagination : Literature and Health in the Early United States / Sari Altschuler. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2018] ©2018 1 online resource : 12 illus. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Early American Studies Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Revolution -- Chapter 2. Yellow Fever -- Chapter 3. Cholera -- Chapter 4. Difference -- Chapter 5. Anesthesia -- Conclusion. Humanistic Inquiry in Medicine, Then and Now -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments In 1872, Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, "Science does not know its debt to imagination," words that still ring true in the worlds of health and health care today. The checklists and clinical algorithms of modern medicine leave little space for imagination, and yet we depend on creativity and ingenuity for the advancement of medicine-to diagnose unusual conditions, to innovate treatment, and to make groundbreaking discoveries. We know a great deal about the empirical aspects of medicine, but we know far less about what the medical imagination is, what it does, how it works, or how we might train it.In The Medical Imagination, Sari Altschuler argues that this was not always so. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, doctors understood the imagination to be directly connected to health, intimately involved in healing, and central to medical discovery. In fact, for physicians and other health writers in the early United States, literature provided important forms for crafting, testing, and implementing theories of health. Reading and writing poetry trained judgment, cultivated inventiveness, sharpened observation, and supplied evidence for medical research, while novels and short stories offered new perspectives and sites for experimenting with original medical theories.Such imaginative experimentation became most visible at moments of crisis or novelty in American medicine, such as the 1790s yellow fever epidemics, the global cholera pandemics, and the discovery of anesthesia, when conventional wisdom and standard practice failed to produce satisfying answers to pressing questions. Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, health research and practice relied on a broader complex of knowing, in which imagination often worked with and alongside observation, experience, and empirical research. In reframing the historical relationship between literature and health, The Medical Imagination provides a usable past for contemporary conversations about the role of the imagination-and the humanities more broadly-in health research and practice today. 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 16. Mai 2019) American literature 1783-1850 History and criticism. Diseases in literature. Literature and medicine United States History 18th century. Literature and medicine United States History 19th century. Medical literature United States History 18th century. Medical literature United States History 19th century. Medicine Philosophy History 18th century. Medicine Philosophy History 19th century. Medicine United States History 18th century. American History. American Studies. Cultural Studies. Literature. Medicine. LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2018 English 9783110604252 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2018 9783110603255 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural and Area Stud. 2018 English 9783110604184 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural and Area Studies 2018 9783110603187 ZDB-23-DKU Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook package 2017-2019 9783110659894 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UPP eBook Package 2016-2018 9783110662603 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Univ.of Pennsylvania Press eBook-Package 2017-2018 9783110657470 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Univ.of Pennsylvania Press eBook-Package 2018 9783110606638 https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812294743 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780812294743.jpg |
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