The Medical Imagination: Literature and Health in the Early United States (Early American Studies)

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.

• | Author: Sari Altschuler
• | Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• | Publication Date: March 20, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 312 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0812249860
• | ISBN-13: 9780812249866