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... of the medical establishment's interests in black minds and bodies. Focusing on Invisible Man and an early excised chapter titled “Out of the Hospital and under the Bar,” this essay proposes that Ellison rewrites the terms of psychiatric discourse, embracing a dialectical understanding of neurosis that figures...

... like the medical graphing instruments of the 1860s creates a continuous record of bodily sensation attending to scale, timing, and source, helps not just to construct a subjectivity through emotion but to assert the materiality of the fictional world supporting that subjectivity. More important...

...Sylvia A. Pamboukian Curious and Interesting meegan kennedy, Revising the Clinic: Vision and Representation in Victorian Medical Narrative and the Novel (Columbus: Ohio State UP, 2010), pp. 261, cloth, $39.95. Building on work by Lawrence Rothfield, Peter Brooks...

... little time left. She told us she had been on antiretroviral medication dispensed by the clinic at no charge but had stopped taking them because they made her sicker. She did not have consistent access to food. Sitting in her home, I kept thinking the zinc and cardboard shack was no match...

... to that of an object glass, moving effortlessly between philosophical principle and penetrating analysis of textual detail. In the introductory section of the book, Ablow engages with recent theories of pain, post-Scarry, as well as exploring the medical, scientific, and religious frameworks for thinking about...

...), which tells the story of Henry Per- owne, a London neurosurgeon. The novel provides an in-depth look into the pro- fessional lives of surgeons, and McEwan displays a keen ear for medical jargon, describing entire operations in stunning detail. For example: The next case was a craniotomy...

... forces.. .. Penetration of one's 'membrane,' whether by bacteria or foreign ideas, represents an insult, a subversion of selfhood. Sexually it repre- sents an unmanning, the humiliating assumption of a passive sexual role" (7). Otis demonstrates how medical writing and fiction are cultural...

...-but is a relatively recent product, emerging in thd mid-nineteenth-century through the emergence of eugenics, statis- tics, and medical science. Adolphe Quetelet's invention of statistics or Francis Galton's eugenics research helped create a statistical average individual (l'homme moyen...

... framing and methodology work in some degree as misdirection from a more coherent buried argument running like a thread through the accumulated evidence. For all of the contextual thickness and detailed archival research concerning contemporary medical and legal debates that Walton hedges around...

... imbrications require that the history of an emotion be the history of the words expressing it (82). That history began in 1688, when a Swiss physician combined the Greek words for return and sorrow to produce a specifically medical term for what was otherwise called heimweh, desiderium patriae...

..., and medical-historical texts, he makes good on that insight. The gothic and Kantian discovery of a "new dimension of human consciousness" is the discovery of consciousness as an act of reflection haunted by the mysteries of its own occurrence. In a way, therefore, this book argues, Kant and the gothc...

... analyses also make use of discussions of the Creole in travel narratives, medical texts, journalism, memoirs, and government reports. Chapter 1 closely examines the political stakes of the specific definitions of "Creole" in the three major national/imperialist contexts that the book considers...

..., and literature draw, represents Flint's most compelling depiction of a Victo- rian interdisciplinarity. Reading Eliot's The Lzffed Veil alongside medical texts on transfu- sion, Flint offers a wonderful link between mental prevision and the medical imagination when she quotes G.H. Lewes's description...

... Schiavo case and the controversy over the filmMillion Dollar Baby demonstrate, the nonproductive body that medical science would consign to the dustbin is always, potentially, the body we would not want our daughter to bear, the body we would not want to keep on life support, the body that, could...

... Society, narrated literally from the dead by Caine. Along the way, Holland engages Fou- cault's readings of medical technologies and the state's need to police and determine the boundaries between life and death. By contrast, Holland seeks to move a dialogue between the living and the dead right...

... disappeared from such functionalist accounts. He extends that observation to detailed, complex, close studies of Jane Austen's use of the contemp rary medicalization of homesickness; Charlotte Bronte's exploitation of phrenology (which did not even include memo~in its topography of the brain...

... , Dorothy J. Social Formalism: The Novel in Theory from Henry James to the Present . Stanford: Stanford UP, 1998 . Hunt , L. M. “Moral Reasoning and the Meaning of Cancer: Causal Explanations of Oncologists and Patients in Southern Mexico.” Medical Anthropology Quarterly 12 ( 1998 ): 298...

... empiricism: thus she reads Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year through corpuscular medical theory; pairs adventure fictions by William Chetwood and Penelope Aubin with theories of color and racial difference; compares the representation of status inconsistency in Fielding's early novels to alchemical ideas...

... Minneapolis : U of Minnesota P , 1991 . Nelson Alondra . Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination . Minneapolis : U of Minnesota P , 2011 . Ransby Barbara . Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision . Chapel...

... Professor of English at the University of Mississippi. She is currently at work on a book entitled Economic Woman: Political Economy, Medical Discourse, and Problems of Closure in Victorian Prose. CHRISTOPHER HERBERT is Professor of English at Northwestern University and the author...