Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction: What's a Doctor, After All? 1
4. Chapter 1 Professional Medicine, Democracy, and the Modern Body: The Discovery of Etherization 15
5. Chapter 2 Reading the Body: Hawthorne's Tales of Medical Ambition 39
6. Chapter 3 Carnival Bodies and Medical Professionalism in Melville's Fiction 70
7. Chapter 4 Class and Character: Doctors in Nineteenth-Century Periodicals 103
8. Chapter 5 Gender, Medicine, and Literature in Postbellum Fiction 135
9. Chapter 6 Social Surgery: Physicians on the Color Line 182
10. Epilogue: From the Clinic to the Research Laboratory: A Case Study of Three Stories 217
11. Notes 227
12. Bibliography 271
13. Index 289
14. Acknowledgments 303