Profound Science and Elegant Literature Imagining Doctors in Nineteenth-Century America Stephanie P. Browner "This meticulous study of the descent and ascent of medical reputations considers fiction and visual art of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, along with medical journals and letters circulated among members of the profession. . . . Comprehensive and utterly readable."--Choice In 1847, at the first meeting of the American Medical Association, the newly elected president reminded his brethren that the profession, "once venerated," no longer earned homage "spontaneously and...