The Medical Imagination – Literature and Health in the Early United States: Early American Studies
Autor Sari Altschuleren Limba Engleză Hardback – 19 mar 2018
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.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780812249866
ISBN-10: 0812249860
Pagini: 312
Dimensiuni: 162 x 236 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Editura: MT – University of Pennsylvania Press
Seria Early American Studies
ISBN-10: 0812249860
Pagini: 312
Dimensiuni: 162 x 236 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Editura: MT – University of Pennsylvania Press
Seria Early American Studies
Cuprins
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
Notă biografică
Descriere
The Medical Imagination traces the practice of using imagination and literature to craft, test, and implement theories of health in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century America. This history of imaginative experimentation provides a usable past for conversations about the role of the humanities in health research and practice today.