The Medical Imagination

The Medical Imagination
Author: Sari Altschuler
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2018-03-20
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0812249860

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.