Friday, January 8, 2016

Mysterious Medicine: The Doctor-Scientist Tales of Hawthorne and Poe



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ISBN-13:
9781631012143

Publisher:

Kent State University Press

Date of publication:
04/03/2016

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Pages:
296

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678 KB


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Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe were masters of mystery and fantasy, but they are also involved real debate over individual health, public health practice and biomedical research in the nineteenth century in America. During this unstable period when hypnotists, phrenology and other pseudo-scientists reigned and # 8220; regular # 8221; Doctors are just beginning to consolidate power, Hawthorne and Poe, provided important critiques of experimental and often haphazard care systems, as well as insights into the evolving understanding of the mental and physical disorders. According to the authors, they responded to the social, historical, and medical powers of its time, but it also addresses topics of bioethics, humanism, and to help the patient-oriented, which remain relevant in the twenty-first century.

Mysterious medicine is the first anthology to bring together Hawthorne # 8217; s and POE # 8217, S physician-scientist tales with thought provoking introductions and discussions that make the anthology is suitable for classrooms, book clubs and individual readers. Every reader will find a new dimension of classic fairy tales, like Hawthorne # 8217; s # 8220; Rappaccini # 8217; Daughter # 8221; or Poe # 8217; s # 8220; Fall of the House of Usher # 8221; at the same time to explore the lesser-known works, like Hawthorne # 8217; s # 8220; Dr. Bullivant # 8221; Poe and # 8217; s # 8220 ;. The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar # 8221;As you would expect of America # 8217; s dark romance, fairy tale has Gothic elements, such as crumbing mansions, chaotic and crazy houses pathological killers. They also include the medical horrors as premature burial, plague, poisoning, and in the hands of charlatans, transmitting anxiety Americans feel about the unethical experimentation, unexplained illnesses, and growth of the body snatching for anatomical study. Additional text L. Kerr Dunn helps arrange every story in the context of nineteenth-century medicine and draws parallels with issues related to health, with whom we are fighting today.The physician-scientist stories collected in Mysterious Medicine suggests that arts and humanities offer unique ways to explore the social, cultural, political and personal forces that influence how we suffer and heal.
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