Notice bibliographique
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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Altschuler, Sari
Titre(s) : The medical imagination [Texte imprimé] : literature and health in the early United States / Sari Altschuler
Publication : Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania press, copyright 2018
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (301 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
Collection : Early American studies
Lien à la collection : Early American studies
Note(s) : Notes bibliogr.
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. This book 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
Sujet(s) : Sciences de la santé -- Documentation -- États-Unis -- Histoire
Littérature et médecine -- États-Unis -- Histoire
Littérature et maladies -- États-Unis -- Histoire
Indice(s) Dewey :
810.935 6109 (23e éd.) = Littérature américaine de langue anglaise - Histoire et critique - Thème de la
médecine, de la santé, du corps humain - Histoire
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780812249866. - ISBN 0812249860 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45600119w
Notice n° :
FRBNF45600119
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Introduction ; Revolution ; Yellow fever ; Cholera ; Difference ; Anesthesia
; Humanistic inquiry in medicine, then and now.
