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Contents

Introduction: What’s a Doctor, After All?

1. Professional Medicine, Democracy, and the Modern Body: The Discovery of Etherization

2. Reading the Body: Hawthorne’s Tales of Medical Ambition

3. Carnival Bodies and Medical Professionalism in Melville’s Fiction

4. Class and Character: Doctors in Nineteenth-Century Periodicals

5. Gender, Medicine, and Literature in Postbellum Fiction

6. Social Surgery: Physicians on the Color Line

Epilogue: From the Clinic to the Research Laboratory: A Case Study of Three Stories

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Acknowledgments