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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
