![]() | Profound Science and Elegant Literature Subjects: Medicine in literature.; Physicians; Medical fiction American; Literature and science; Literature and medicine; Physicians in literature.; American literature; 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. Stephanie Browner is Dean of Faculty and Associate Professor of English at Berea College. She is coauthor of Literature and the Internet: A Guide for Students, Teachers, and Scholars (with Stephen Pulsford and Richard Sears). |
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