Profound Science and Elegant Literature Imagining Doctors in Nineteenth-Century America |
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| Author:
| Browner, Stephanie P. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8122-3825-9 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2004 |
| Publisher: | University of Pennsylvania Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $74.95 |
Book Description:
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By the latter part of the nineteenth century, the physician had supplanted the clergyman as the nation's most esteemed professional, as the body had seemingly replaced the soul as a person's most prized possession. Stephanie Browner looks at this era of change.
By the latter part of the nineteenth century, the physician had supplanted the clergyman as the nation's most esteemed professional, as the body had seemingly replaced the soul as a person's most prized possession. Stephanie Browner looks at this era of change.