The Medical Imagination

The Medical Imagination PDF Author: Sari Altschuler
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812249860
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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Book Description
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.