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S. Weir Mitchell, 1829-1914 : Philadelphia's literary physician / Nancy Cervetti.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Penn State series in the history of the bookPublisher: University Park, Pennsylvania : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: xii, 295 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0271054034
  • 9780271054032
Other title:
  • S. Weir Mitchell, 1829 to 1914
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 610.92 23
LOC classification:
  • R154.M66 C47 2012
Contents:
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.
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 Putnam Jacobi, Walt Whitman, and Andrew Carnegie"--Provided by publisher.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book North Campus North Campus Main Collection 610.92 MIT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A479830B

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

"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 Putnam Jacobi, Walt Whitman, and Andrew Carnegie"--Provided by publisher.

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