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Published: 01 March 2022
Figure 7 Nimdok about to perform a cruel medical procedure on a Jewish child in a Nazi concentration camp in I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (Cyberdreams Interactive Entertainment, 1995 ). Screenshot taken by author
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American Literature (2014) 86 (3): 583–610.
Published: 01 September 2014
..., trusts, and corporations. The book presents the competition between these alternative paradigms by following the shifting career choices and internal conflicts of its protagonist, Dr. Howard Sommers, as he strives to satisfy his own vision—at times itself contradictory—of medical professionalism...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (4): 881–884.
Published: 01 December 2017
... . By Hutchins Zachary McLeod . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2014 . x, 329 pp. Cloth , $78.00 ; e-book available. Medical Encounters: Knowledge and Identity in Early American Literatures . By Wisecup Kelly . Amherst : Univ. of Massachusetts Press . 2013 . xi, 259 pp. Paper , $25.95 ; e...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 93–119.
Published: 01 March 2013
... health care activists, including C. V. Roman, founding member of the National Medical Association (1895) and the first editor of the Journal of the National Medical Association , E. Elliott Rawlins, health columnist for the Amsterdam News , and Mary Fitzbutler Waring, chair of the Committee for Health...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (4): 629–654.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Ira Halpern Abstract The literary and cultural dimensions of the longstanding US political debate over public versus private health care have been critically underexplored. How did early twentieth-century US writers portray the business of medical care within a stratified US economy? In Robert...
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in A New Chapter in the Story of Trauma: Narratives of Bodily Healing from 1860s America
> American Literature
Published: 01 December 2019
Figure 1 “Nervous Function,” diagram from Holmes’s anatomy lecture notebook, 1852. Courtesy of the Harvard Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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American Literature (2008) 80 (3): 527–554.
Published: 01 September 2008
... time, the temperance plot was updated to include the idea that such habituations might be nervous illnesses afflicting modern professional workers. Through its addicted protagonist Martin Jocelyn, Roe's novel engages these unevenly developing medical, reform, and popular early representations...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (3): 497–523.
Published: 01 September 2021
... to ironize assumptions of white universalism and uncritical postracialism. Studious deracination challenges medical discourse’s “color-blind” approach to healthcare and enables a reconsideration of comparative racialization in a moment of accelerating social disintegration and blasted landscapes. Indeed...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 5–31.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Benjamin Reiss This essay explores Henry David Thoreau's Walden in relation to the history of sleep, considered as a medical, biological, social, and spiritual phenomenon. Attention to Thoreau's striving for “awakening” and “alertness” has veiled his running rhetoric of dormancy: scenes and tropes...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (3): 523–551.
Published: 01 September 2018
.... Valdemar” with Justinus Kerner’s medical case history “The Seeress of Prevorst,” this essay compares the narrative constructions of verisimilitude in science and fiction. But in exploring the viral dissemination of “Valdemar,” I also analyze how nineteenth-century print media produced content and credence...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (3): 547–574.
Published: 01 September 2015
... suffering could inspire social change. This essay first surveys the medical advances, religious ideologies, and consumerist tendencies that contributed to the burgeoning perception of painlessness as a desirable and increasingly feasible goal before examining the implications of sentimentalist...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (3): 557–590.
Published: 01 September 2017
... this approach was narrated, how the form worked, and the effects of the genre on popular and medical knowledge. Contemporary global health has been reorganized around scientific empiricism, but elements of its gothic history remain. I conclude by suggesting the value of recuperating these gothic origins...
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American Literature (2024) 96 (2): 269–295.
Published: 01 June 2024
..., the narrators’ experiences cohere into relational clusters that evince commonalities while also maintaining differences. In engaging with their painful abortion experiences, these narratives reshape the medical, national, and feminist power structures that attempted to define the pain that abortion signified...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 707–722.
Published: 01 December 2020
... that reinforces racist and xenophobic discourses of containment and control with direct and deadly consequences. Mitigation of this pandemic and future pandemics will require not only medical but also representational interventions. References Allen Toph , Murray Kris A. , Zambrana-Torrelio...
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in Tales Told by Empty Sleeves: Disability, Mendicancy, and Civil War Life Writing
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Published: 01 September 2022
Figure 2 Mendicant texts featuring a commonly circulated poem. George M. Reed, “The One Arm and One Leg Soldier,” United States, s.n., not before 1865. Source: the American Antiquarian Society. “The One-Arm Soldier,” United States, s.n., circa 1870. Source: the Harvard Medical Library Rare Books
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American Literature (2024) 96 (2): 187–212.
Published: 01 June 2024
...: the circulation of war photographs in Northern media outlets made the horrors of war visible to the public, and the Army Medical Museum documented the experiences and treatments of wounded soldiers in order to further medical knowledge. Alcott and Whitman each transposed these visual registers into their writing...
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American Literature (2004) 76 (4): 889–891.
Published: 01 December 2004
... history, whereas K. Patrick Ober confines himself to the life and writ-
ings of Mark Twain, but both authors offer large insights into the mysteries of
human illness and the lessons cultural historians can learn from nineteenth-
century understandings of illness and medical treatment. Perhaps because...
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American Literature (2004) 76 (1): 117–148.
Published: 01 March 2004
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—Gertrude Stein, notebooks for The Making of Americans
In 1902, less than a year after she left her scien-
tific training at the Johns Hopkins Medical School, Gertrude Stein
began preliminary work on The Making of Americans, subtitled ‘‘Being
aHistoryofaFamily’sProgress1 In her...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (1): 183–185.
Published: 01 March 2020
... recognition of what we might not have thought to try to understand, for this reader at least, passed directly into exuberant discovery of a new rhetorical and literary field, thanks to access to (inter)locutors whose medical lives are mapped across the full array of points on “the” spectrum—including...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (4): 785–813.
Published: 01 December 2018
... , 2nd ed., edited by Hall David D. , 199 – 310 . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . First published 1644. Like much of medical practice, reproductive health care can, in fact, be gruesome, even disgusting; perhaps more fundamentally than other areas of medicine, it routinely entails...
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