S. Weir Mitchell, 1829-1914 [electronic resource] : Philadelphia's literary physician / Nancy Cervetti.
Material type: TextSeries: Penn State series in the history of the book | UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2012. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (p. )ISBN:- 9780271058184
- 0271058188
- 610.92 B 23
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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