The Medical Imagination – Literature and Health in the Early United States

The Medical Imagination\nby Sari Altschuler\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Sari Altschuler\nTitle: The Medical Imagination\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Literature: history and criticism\nPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press\nPublication year: 2022\nISBN-13: 9780812225204\nISBN-10: 0812225201\nRRP: \u00A327.99\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nIn 1872, Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, Science does not know its debt to imagination, words that still ring true in the worlds of health and health care today. The checklists and clinical algorithms of modern medicine leave little space for imagination, and yet we depend on creativity and ingenuity for the advancement of medicine\u2014to diagnose unusual conditions, to innovate treatment, and to make groundbreaking discoverie.