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During the period of the professionalization of American medicine, many authors were concerned with a concurrent tendency to define identity in biological terms. Most of them doctors or patients themselves, they used literature polemically to convey their views about the meaning of the body and the origin and cure of disease. This book demonstrates that emergent medical beliefs about bodily functions and malfunctions surface in the writings of these authors not simply as thematic concerns but as

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Author

Davis, Cynthia J., 1964-

Publisher

Stanford University Press ; Cambridge University Press

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780804737739

Category

literary studies

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Literary Criticism, Medical

Updated

2026-03-25