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Health Care Fictions: The Business of Medicine and Modern US Literature

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Ira Halpern
American Literature (2021) 93 (4): 629–654.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-9520208
Published: 01 December 2021
... Herrick’s The Healer (1911), Wallace Thurman and A. L. Furman’s The Interne (1932), and Frank G. Slaughter’s That None Should Die (1941), the problems of inequality, profit, and corruption plague the practice of professional medicine. The writers of these novels do not, for the most part, blame the trouble...
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The Moccasin Telegraph: Sign-Talk Autobiography and Pretty-shield, Medicine Woman of the Crows

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Kay Yandell
American Literature (2012) 84 (3): 533–561.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1664710
Published: 01 September 2012
...Kay Yandell In 1931, Crow medicine woman Pretty Shield delivered her oral autobiography to Frank Linderman, simultaneously through an interpreter of spoken Crow, and without translation to Linderman in Indian Sign Language. Pretty Shield’s and Linderman’s use of the sign language within...
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Theaters of Madness: Insane Asylums and Nineteenth-Century American Culture; Popular Print and Popular Medicine: Almanacs and Health Advice in Early America

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Britt Rusert
American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 188–190.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-076
Published: 01 March 2010
...Britt Rusert © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Theaters of Madness: Insane Asylums and Nineteenth-Century American Culture . By Benjamin Reiss. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2008. xi, 237 pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $20.00. Popular Print and Popular Medicine: Almanacs...
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Mavericks on the Border: The Early Southwest in Historical Fiction and Film; The Medicine Line: Life and Death on a North American Borderland

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Gretchen Murphy
American Literature (2002) 74 (1): 187–190.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-74-1-187
Published: 01 March 2002
... such as newspaperman Will Carlton (who earned almost $500 a week in 1871 for nightly readings of his dialect monologues in rhymed cou- plets) and former medicine-show salesman James Whitcomb Riley, the most widely read American poet in the 1880s. Dunbar’s publishers, Thomas notes, ‘‘emulated Riley’s habit...
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Rehabilitating Bodies: Health, History, and the American Civil War; Mark Twain and Medicine: “Any Mummery Will Cure”

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Kristin Boudreau
American Literature (2004) 76 (4): 889–891.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-76-4-889
Published: 01 December 2004
... resourcefulness of this indomitable ex-slave. Adam Gussow, University of Mississippi Rehabilitating Bodies: Health, History, and the American Civil War. By Lisa A. Long. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. 2003. 344 pp. $49.95. Mark Twain and Medicine: ‘‘Any Mummery Will Cure By K. Patrick Ober...
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Figure 2 Poster shown in the film Medicine in Action: Pacific Enemy Number Two-Malaria (1944). US Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, 1945

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in How Do We See COVID-19? Visual Iconographies of Racial Contagion > American Literature
Published: 01 December 2020
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How Quarantine Attempts to Universalize the Black Condition

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Kelly L. Bezio
American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 697–706.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8780911
Published: 01 December 2020
... of marginalized, historically disenfranchised populations to secure supply chains and ensure access to basic goods, foodstuffs, and medicines for those sheltering at home. Structuring its claims within the critical race theories of Saidiya V. Hartman, Achille Mbembe, and Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, it draws...
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Racial Disintegration: Biomedical Futurity at the Environmental Limit

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Michelle N. Huang
American Literature (2021) 93 (3): 497–523.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-9361293
Published: 01 September 2021
..., while precision medicine promises to replace race with genomics, Asian American literature is key to showing how this “postracial” promise depends on framing racial inequality as a symptom, rather than an underlying etiology, of infrastructures of public health. [email protected]...
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“A Face of Anguish”: Pain and Portraiture in the Civil War Hospital

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Jess Libow
American Literature (2024) 96 (2): 187–212.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-11218872
Published: 01 June 2024
... and interpreting it, and the essay concludes by suggesting that by bringing into focus the process of perceiving another’s pain, the study of portraiture offers an important complement to both the field of narrative medicine and health humanities approaches to studying visual art. Importantly, such images...
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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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in A New Chapter in the Story of Trauma: Narratives of Bodily Healing from 1860s America > American Literature
Published: 01 December 2019
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The Sticky Web of Medical Professionalism: Robert Herrick’s The Web of Life and the Political Economy of Health Care at the Turn of the Century

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Phillip Barrish
American Literature (2014) 86 (3): 583–610.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2717416
Published: 01 September 2014
... of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 39 , no. 2 : 173 – 97 . Berlant Jeffrey Lionel . 1975 . Profession and Monopoly: A Study of Medicine in the United States and Great Britain . Berkeley and Los Angeles : Univ. of California Press . Blake Clarence J. 1898 . “ The Citizen...
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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 Collection at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine

Mendicant texts featuring a commonly circulated poem. George M. Reed, “The ...

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in Tales Told by Empty Sleeves: Disability, Mendicancy, and Civil War Life Writing > American Literature
Published: 01 September 2022
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The Gothic Origins of Global Health

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Sari Altschuler
American Literature (2017) 89 (3): 557–590.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-4160894
Published: 01 September 2017
... . The Gothic Body: Sexuality, Materialism, and Degeneration at the Fin de Siècle . Cambridge : Cambridge Univ. Press . Institute of Medicine and Board on International Health . 1997 . America’s Vital Interest in Global Health: Protecting Our People, Enhancing Our Economy, and Advancing Our...
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Unsanitized Domestic Allegories: Biomedical Politics, Racial Uplift, and the African American Woman's Risk Narrative

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Stephen Knadler
American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 93–119.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1959553
Published: 01 March 2013
...: Disease, Poverty, and Deviance in San Francisco . Minneapolis : Univ. of Minnesota Press . Craig Layne Parish . 2010 . “ ‘That Means Children to Me’: The Birth Control Movement in Nella Larsen's Quicksand .” In Gender Scripts in Medicine and Narrative , edited by Block Marcelline...
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Ghostly Figures: Memory and Belatedness in Postwar American Poetry Indirect Action: Schizophrenia, Epilepsy, AIDS, and the Course of Health Activism

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Douglas Dowland
American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 666–668.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7722224
Published: 01 September 2019
... contemporary poetry, Diedrich offers, in Indirect Action , a guide to problematize contemporary narratives of medicine. Diedrich uses the trope of indirection to get at the ways in which illness cannot be wholly understood “through discrete disciplines and categories” (3). For her, indirection is also...
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Imagining Rhetoric: Composing Women of the Early United States; Poets in the Public Sphere: The Emancipatory Project of American Women's Poetry,1800-1900

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Matt Cohen, Melinda DiStefano
American Literature (2004) 76 (4): 891–894.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-76-4-891
Published: 01 December 2004
... diseases during an age when medicine was ran- dom, unscientific, and caustic. Heroic medicine—whose typical treatments included emetics, bleeding, and blistering—held that serious illnesses de- manded extreme treatment. Twain’s desperate mother taught him a suspicion of mainstream medicine and a taste...
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Makandal and Pandemic Knowledge: Literature, Fetish, and Health in the Plantationocene

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Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, Kate Simpkins
American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 723–735.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8780935
Published: 01 December 2020
... plants, using plants as medicine and poison, caring for animals, making sugar, fomenting revolution, dancing, crafting curses and blessings, political leadership, and reading and speaking languages that may have included Kreyòl, French, Arabic, and Kongolese. He was burned at the stake by French colonial...
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The Cultural Logic of Euthanasia: “Sad Fancyings” in Herman Melville's “Bartleby”

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Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
American Literature (2004) 76 (4): 777–806.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-76-4-777
Published: 01 December 2004
... medicine’s domination and consolidation of its authority in the late nineteenth century. These new corporeal management prac- tices unmoor suffering from the narrow berth of pain as liberal indi- vidualism comes to expect a more easeful life and less uncertainty about the fate and management of the body...
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Pain after 2020, An Introduction

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Sari Altschuler, Thomas Constantinesco
American Literature (2024) 96 (2): 141–162.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-11218858
Published: 01 June 2024
... on the failures of medical knowing during the early pandemic, see my (Altschuler’s) “Learning from Crisis: Narrative and the History of Medicine” ( 2020 ). See Charles E. Rosenberg’s The Cholera Years ( 1962 ) for the definitive study of how pandemics challenge and remake medical knowledge. 6 In all...
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American Literature Index to Volume 84 (March 2012–December 2012)

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American Literature (2012) 84 (4): 897–914.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2082227
Published: 01 December 2012
... in Hollywood, 217–18. Review: Collins, Bring on the Books for Everybody: How Literary Cul- ture Became Popular Culture, 217–18. Yandell, Kay. “The Moccasin Telegraph: Sign Talk Autobiography and Pretty-shield, Medicine Woman of the Crows,” 533–61. Ybarra, Patricia. Review: Pao, No Safe Spaces...
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