S. Weir Mitchell, 1829–1914

Philadelphia's Literary Physician

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

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Beskrivning

This modern biography provides a comprehensive and balanced view of a legendary figure in American medicine. Controversial because of his fierce fight against women’s rights, S. Weir Mitchell achieved stunning success through his experimentation with venomous snakes, treatment of Civil War soldiers with phantom limbs and burning pain, and creation of the rest cure to treat hysteria and neurasthenia. Mitchell’s life was extraordinary—interesting in its own right and as a case study in the larger inquiry into nineteenth-century medicine and culture.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-03-15
Mått:152 x 229 x 28 mm
Vikt:544 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:312
Förlag:Pennsylvania State University Press
ISBN:9780271054049

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Nancy Cervetti is Professor of English at Avila University.

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“Cervetti has produced an elegantly written, incredibly detailed, and impressively comprehensive narrative of Mitchell’s journey from the insecure son of an overbearing father to the highly esteemed and influential researcher and clinician in physiology and neurology to a kind of medical public intellectual and literat[us].”—Richard A. Meckel Journal of American History

Innehållsförteckning

ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsA Note on the TextIntroduction1Family Matters2Letters Home3The Young Physiologist4War’s Awful Harvest5Wind and Tide6Pandora’s Box7The Apple or the Rose8The Literary Physician9Combat Zones10Great Doctor, Poet, and Salmon Killer11Winter’s Sorrow12The New CenturyEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex