{"product_id":"the-medical-imagination-9780812225204","title":"The Medical Imagination","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1872, Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, Science does not know its debt to imagination, words that still ring true in the worlds of health and health care today. The checklists and clinical algorithms of modern medicine leave little space for imagination, and yet we depend on creativity and ingenuity for the advancement of medicine—to diagnose unusual conditions, to innovate treatment, and to make groundbreaking discoveries. We know a great deal about the empirical aspects of medicine, but we know far less about what the medical imagination is, what it does, how it works, or how we might train it.\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Medical Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e, Sari Altschuler argues that this was not always so. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, doctors understood the imagination to be directly connected to health, intimately involved in healing, and central to medical discovery. In fact, for physicians and other health writers in the early United States, literature provided important forms f\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Revolution\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Yellow Fever\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Cholera\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Difference\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Anesthesia\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion. Humanistic Inquiry in Medicine, Then and Now\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405708697943,"sku":"9780812225204","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812225204.jpg?v=1730493354","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-medical-imagination-9780812225204","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}