Disorders of a fatal tendency : the rise and fall of the medical a republican elite in American literature, 1790-1865 / by Patrick Prominski.

At the close of the eighteenth century in America, medicine and medical authority rested within the Jeffersonian ideal of the natural aristocracy--what Jefferson himself called the "aristoi." The notion was simple: among Americans, there were a select few, produced through good breeding and educatio...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Prominski, Patrick (Author)
Corporate Author: Michigan State University (Degree granting institution)
Other Authors: Watts, Edward, 1964- (Degree supervisor)
Language:English
Published: 2017.
Subjects:
Physicians in literature > 18th century.
Physicians in literature > 19th century.
American literature > 18th century.
American literature > 19th century.
Physicians > United States > 18th century.
Physicians > United States > 19th century.
Aristocracy (Political science) > United States > 18th century.
Medicine > United States > Public opinion > 19th century.
Homeopathic physicians > United States > Public opinion > 19th century.
United States > Study and teaching.
Electronic dissertations.
Academic theses.
Physicians in literature.
Physicians.
Medicine > Public opinion.
Aristocracy (Political science)
American literature.
United States.
1700-1899
Genre:
Electronic dissertations.
Academic theses.
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Dissertation Note:
Thesis Ph. D. Michigan State University. English 2017
Physical Description:1 online resource (v, 170 pages)
Variant Title:
Disorders of a fatal tendency : the rise and fall of the medical Republican elite in American literature, 1790-1865
Format: Thesis Electronic eBook

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