Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science
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Page : 786 pages
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Release : 1876
Category : Civilization
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Page : 786 pages
File Size : 11,52 MB
Release : 1876
Category : Civilization
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Author : Various
Publisher : Pinnacle Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 32,65 MB
Release : 2017-05-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781374967809
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Page : 800 pages
File Size : 38,26 MB
Release : 1871
Category : American literature
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Page : 640 pages
File Size : 33,8 MB
Release : 1881
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Author : Various
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 40,64 MB
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Social Science
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The present book is a compilation of all the articles from the eleventh volume of 23rd issue of the famous English magazine named Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science.
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Page : 686 pages
File Size : 18,26 MB
Release : 1868
Category : American literature
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Page : 784 pages
File Size : 16,76 MB
Release : 1879
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Page : 204 pages
File Size : 41,58 MB
Release : 1901-11
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Page : 780 pages
File Size : 36,29 MB
Release : 1916
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Author : Sari Altschuler
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 48,35 MB
Release : 2018-02-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0812294742
In 1872, Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, "Science does not know its debt to imagination," words that still ring true in the worlds of health and health care today. The checklists and clinical algorithms of modern medicine leave little space for imagination, and yet we depend on creativity and ingenuity for the advancement of medicine—to diagnose unusual conditions, to innovate treatment, and to make groundbreaking discoveries. We know a great deal about the empirical aspects of medicine, but we know far less about what the medical imagination is, what it does, how it works, or how we might train it. In The Medical Imagination, Sari Altschuler argues that this was not always so. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, doctors understood the imagination to be directly connected to health, intimately involved in healing, and central to medical discovery. In fact, for physicians and other health writers in the early United States, literature provided important forms for crafting, testing, and implementing theories of health. Reading and writing poetry trained judgment, cultivated inventiveness, sharpened observation, and supplied evidence for medical research, while novels and short stories offered new perspectives and sites for experimenting with original medical theories. Such imaginative experimentation became most visible at moments of crisis or novelty in American medicine, such as the 1790s yellow fever epidemics, the global cholera pandemics, and the discovery of anesthesia, when conventional wisdom and standard practice failed to produce satisfying answers to pressing questions. Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, health research and practice relied on a broader complex of knowing, in which imagination often worked with and alongside observation, experience, and empirical research. In reframing the historical relationship between literature and health, The Medical Imagination provides a usable past for contemporary conversations about the role of the imagination—and the humanities more broadly—in health research and practice today.