S. Weir Mitchell, 1829–1914 Philadelphia's Literary Physician

This modern biography provides a comprehensive and balanced view of a legendary figure in American medicine. Controversial because of his fierce fight against women’s rights, Mitchell achieved stunning success through his experimentation with venomous snakes, treatment of Civil War soldiers with pha...

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1. Verfasser: Cervetti, Nancy
Format: E-Book Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: University Park, PA Pennsylvania State University Press 2012
Penn State University Press
Ausgabe:1
Schriftenreihe:Penn State Series in the History of the Book
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1829-1914
1829–1914: S. Weir Mitchell
Andrew Carnegie
Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Medical
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Civil War
Edith Wharton
Gender Studies
history
HISTORY / United States / 19th Century
History Pennsylvania
History, 19th Century
History, 19th Century > Philadelphia
History, 20th Century
History, 20th Century > Philadelphia
Jacobi Walt Whitman
Jane Addams
Literature
Literature > history > Philadelphia
Mary Putnam
Medical
Mitchell, S. Weir
Mitchell, S. Weir (Silas Weir), 1829-1914
Nancy Cervetti
Neurology
Neurology > history > Philadelphia
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Philadelphia
Physicians
Physicians > Philadelphia > Biography
Physicians-Pennsylvania-Philadelphia-Biography
S. Weir Mitchell
Silas Weir
SOCIAL SCIENCE
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies
the Mid-Atlantic
The Yellow Wall-paper
Turner’s Lane Hospital
William Osler
Winifred Howells
History Pennsylvania
Andrew Carnegie
The Yellow Wall-paper
Nancy Cervetti
Mary Putnam
Jane Addams
William Osler
Civil War
Winifred Howells
Jacobi Walt Whitman
Edith Wharton
S. Weir Mitchell
1829–1914: S. Weir Mitchell
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Turner’s Lane Hospital
the Mid-Atlantic
ISBN:9780271054032, 0271054034, 0271060042, 9780271060040
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Zusammenfassung:This modern biography provides a comprehensive and balanced view of a legendary figure in American medicine. Controversial because of his fierce fight against women’s rights, Mitchell achieved stunning success through his experimentation with venomous snakes, treatment of Civil War soldiers with phantom limbs and burning pain, and creation of the rest cure to treat hysteria and neurasthenia. Mitchell’s life was extraordinary—interesting in its own right and as a case study in the larger inquiry into nineteenth-century medicine and culture.
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-285) and index
ISBN:9780271054032
0271054034
0271060042
9780271060040
DOI:10.1515/9780271060040