Author: Sari Altschuler

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2018-03-20

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 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.