The Romance Of Medicine

Author : Robert Leigh Davis
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520918649
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Whitman and the Romance of Medicine written by Robert Leigh Davis and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this compelling, accessible examination of one of America's greatest cultural and literary figures, Robert Leigh Davis details the literary and social significance of Walt Whitman's career as a nurse during the American Civil War. Davis shows how the concept of "convalescence" in nineteenth-century medicine and philosophy—along with Whitman's personal war experiences—provide a crucial point of convergence for Whitman's work as a gay and democratic writer. In his analysis of Whitman's writings during this period—Drum-Taps, Democratic Vistas, Memoranda During the War, along with journalistic works and correspondence—Davis argues against the standard interpretation that Whitman's earliest work was his best. He finds instead that Whitman's hospital writings are his most persuasive account of the democratic experience. Deeply moved by the courage and dignity of common soldiers, Whitman came to identify the Civil War hospitals with the very essence of American democratic life, and his writing during this period includes some of his most urgent reflections on suffering, sympathy, violence, and love. Davis concludes this study with an essay on the contemporary medical writer Richard Selzer, who develops the implications of Whitman's ideas into a new theory of medical narrative.

Author : Laura R. Kremmel
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 1786838508
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Romantic Medicine and the Gothic Imagination written by Laura R. Kremmel and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2022-04-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book debates a crossover between the Gothic and the medical imagination in the Romantic period. It explores the gore and uncertainty typical of medical experimentation, and expands the possibilities of medical theories in a speculative space by a focus on Gothic novels, short stories, poetry, drama and chapbooks. By comparing the Gothic’s collection of unsavoury tropes to morbid anatomy’s collection of diseased organs, the author argues that the Gothic’s prioritisation of fear and gore gives it access to nonnormative bodies, reallocating medical and narrative agency to bodies considered otherwise powerless. Each chapter pairs a trope with a critical medical debate, granting silenced bodies power over their own narratives: the reanimated corpse confronts fears about vitalism; the skeleton exposes fears about pain; the unreliable corpse feeds on fears of dissection; the devil redirects fears about disability; the dangerous narrative manipulates fears of contagion and vaccination.

Author : Louise Erdrich
Publisher : Odyssey Editions
ISBN 13 : 1623730384
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love Medicine written by Louise Erdrich and published by Odyssey Editions. This book was released on 2010-08-15 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first of Louise Erdrich’s polysymphonic novels set in North Dakota – a fictional landscape that, in Erdrich’s hands, has become iconic – Love Medicine is the story of three generations of Ojibwe families. Set against the tumultuous politics of the reservation,the lives of the Kashpaws and the Lamartines are a testament to the endurance of a people and the sorrows of history.

Author : Ronald Campbell Macfie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.C1/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Romance of Medicine written by Ronald Campbell Macfie and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Logan Clendening
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781494114442
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Romance of Medicine written by Logan Clendening and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1933 edition.

Author : Saffron A. Kent
Publisher : Heartstone Series
ISBN 13 : 9781087947730
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medicine Man written by Saffron A. Kent and published by Heartstone Series. This book was released on 2021-08-06 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Willow Taylor lives in a castle with large walls and iron fences. But this is no ordinary castle. It's called Heartstone Psychiatric Hospital and it houses forty other patients. It has nurses with mean faces and techs with permanent frowns. It has a man, as well. A man who is cold and distant. Whose voice drips with authority. And whose piercing gray eyes hide secrets, and maybe linger on her face a second too long. Willow isn't supposed to look deep into those eyes. She isn't supposed to try to read his tightly-leashed emotions. Neither is she supposed to touch herself at night, imagining his powerful voice and that cold but beautiful face. No, Willow Taylor shouldn't be attracted to Simon Blackwood at all. Because she's a patient and he's her doctor. Her psychiatrist. The medicine man.

Author : Sarah Morgan
Publisher : Harlequin / SB Creative
ISBN 13 : 4596079439
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book THE PLAYBOY DOCTOR written by Sarah Morgan and published by Harlequin / SB Creative. This book was released on 2020-05-21 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joanna is a doctor who works tirelessly for the patients in her town. One day, Seb, her classmate from college, shows up to help her out. He’s a multimillionaire from old money and known for being the ultimate playboy, so why is he suddenly working at a small clinic out in the country? Joanna’s perplexed, but Seb surpasses her expectations and proves himself to be an excellent doctor. She ends up falling for him…but he lives in a different world than she does. Joanna has to push away her feelings for him because one day he’ll leave the village…and her.

Author : Ronald Campbell Macfie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The romance of medicine written by Ronald Campbell Macfie and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tasha L. Harrison
Publisher : Tasha L. Harrison
ISBN 13 : 9781393863670
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Taste of Her Own Medicine written by Tasha L. Harrison and published by Tasha L. Harrison. This book was released on 2021-02-05 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "He looks like he could plow my north field without a horse." Sonja Watts needs to re-enter the workforce after divorcing her husband of thirteen years. Taking the advice of her sister Birdie and her best friend Estelle, she signs up for a six-week course for entrepreneurs; hoping that she will learn everything she needs to know to build a business to support herself and her kids. On the first night of class, Sonja is able to ignore the fact that most of the students are younger than her by ten years or more. It's what she expected. But when the instructor walks in, she debates packing up her new twelve-hundred dollar laptop and walking out. Sonja can't remember the last time she looked at a man with little more interest than she would give a sturdy dining room table. She isn't frigid... just disinterested. But wow, did Atlas James grab her interest. Atlas hasn't been interested in dating since he moved back home from California. Adjusting to newfound success in the town where everyone sees him as that big, geeky guy who cut grass for pocket change when they were in high school has been awkward. Aside from a couple of one night stands, he hasn't really wanted to pursue a relationship with anyone until sweet, shy Sonja signs up for his class. Compact, curvy, and juicy in all the right places, being in the same room Sonja Watts ignites all of those giddy feelings he felt when he had his first crush. He wants to know her and he's pretty sure she wants to know him -- even though she seems fixated on the fact that he's younger than her. With her future riding on the success of her new business, Sonja has no time for distraction. Will she be able to keep her eyes on her own paper or will they remain glued to Atlas's biceps and thick thighs?

Author : Sarah B. Rodriguez
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1978800975
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Love Surgeon written by Sarah B. Rodriguez and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-17 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. James Burt believed women’s bodies were broken, and only he could fix them. In the 1950s, this Ohio OB-GYN developed what he called “love surgery,” a unique procedure he maintained enhanced the sexual responses of a new mother, transforming her into “a horny little house mouse.” Burt did so without first getting the consent of his patients. Yet he was allowed to practice for over thirty years, mutilating hundreds of women in the process. It would be easy to dismiss Dr. Burt as a monstrous aberration, a modern-day Dr. Frankenstein. Yet as medical historian Sarah Rodriguez reveals, that’s not the whole story. The Love Surgeon asks tough questions about Burt’s heinous acts and what they reveal about the failures of the medical establishment: How was he able to perform an untested surgical procedure? Why wasn’t he obliged to get informed consent from his patients? And why did it take his peers so long to take action? The Love Surgeon is both a medical horror story and a cautionary tale about the limits of professional self-regulation.