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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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Early American Studies
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Table of Contents:
- 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