Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
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Title Information: |
Philadelphia'sliterary physician |
Author: |
CervettiNancy, 1947- |
Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
Project Muse |
Place of Publication: |
University Park, Pa. |
Published: |
Pennsylvania State University Press; |
Year of Publication: |
c2012 |
Description: |
1 online resource (p.). |
Series: |
Penn State series in the history of the book |
Subject: |
Neurology - history - Philadelphia - |
Subject: |
Literature - history - Philadelphia - |
Subject: |
History, 20th Century - Philadelphia - |
Subject: |
History, 19th Century - Philadelphia - |
Subject: |
Physicians - Biography - Philadelphia - |
Personal Subject: |
Mitchell - S. Weir - |
Online resource: |
http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780271058184/ |
Notes: |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Summary: |
"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 Putclm Jacobi, Walt Whitman, and Andrew Carnegie"--Provided by publisher |
ISBN: |
9780271058184electronic bk. |
ISBN: |
0271058188electronic bk. |
ISBN: |
9780271054032hbk. |
ISBN: |
0271054034hbk. |
Content Note: |
Family matters -- Letters home -- The young physiologist -- War's awful harvest -- Wind and tide -- Pandora's box -- The apple or the rose -- The literary physician -- Combat zones -- Great doctor, poet, and salmon killer -- Winter's sorrow -- The new century |