Contact us on (02) 8445 2300
For all customer service and order enquiries

Woodslane Online Catalogues

9780271054032 Add to Cart Academic Inspection Copy

S. Weir Mitchell, 1829-1914:

Philadelphia's Literary Physician
Description
Table of
Contents
Reviews
Google
Preview

A biography of Philadelphia physician S. Weir Mitchell. Examines his life and his interactions with many prominent nineteenth-century Americans, including Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jane Addams, Winifred Howells, Edith Wharton, William Osler, Mary Putnam Jacobi, Walt Whitman, and Andrew Carnegie.


Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

A Note on the Text

Introduction

1 Family Matters

2 Letters Home

3 The Young Physiologist

4 War’s Awful Harvest

5 Wind and Tide

6 Pandora’s Box

7 The Apple or the Rose

8 The Literary Physician

9 Combat Zones

10 Great Doctor, Poet, and Salmon Killer

11 Winter’s Sorrow

12 The New Century

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index


“Cervetti’s professional, personal, political, and psychological analysis of S. Weir Mitchell provides insight into the social and political climate of the nineteenth century and serves as a useful case study within the larger context of American medicine and culture.”

—Savannah L. Williamson, Social History of Medicine

Google Preview content