Stephanie P Browner
Biographic Data
| ID | 789788 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephanie P Browner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephanie P |
| FAMILY NAME | Browner |
| SIGNATURE | BROWNER S P |
| AFFILIATIONS | The New School , New York City, New York |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Houghton Mifflin Readers’ Reports and the Shape of Charles W. Chesnutt's Literary Career
Between 1891 and 1931, Charles Chesnutt submitted fiction to Houghton Mifflin Company of Boston. The in-house readers’ reports reveal racial preconceptions, commercial concerns, and institutional self-perception, and they shed light on the trajectory of Chesnutt’s career with the elite firm—four books in rapid succession and then rejections
The Science of Abolition
In The Science of Abolition, Eric Herschthal makes a nuanced and responsible course-correction argument. He does not challenge scholarship that traces the ways race-based slavery is deeply modern and was woven into eighteenth- and nineteenth-century scientific thought. And he acknowledges that antislavery technological and scientific arguments often sidestepped questions of Black equality and citizenship, functioning as a “kind of anti-politics” …
The Medical Imagination
The Medical Imagination is a thorough, deeply researched investigation into the role of literature in medical knowledge from Benjamin Rush at the end of the eighteenth century to Oliver Wendell Holmes and S. Weir Mitchell before the Civil War. Sari Altschuler is interested in epistemic crises generated, she argues, by such events as yellow fever and cholera epidemics and the discovery of anesthesia. In a chapter titled “Difference,” for example, …
Science Has No Sex
Arleen Marcia Tuchman's meticulously researched biography of Marie Zakrzewska makes a valuable contribution to the history of women in nineteenth-century American medicine. Zakrzewska's life has earned some discussion in recent studies, but there has been no biography since Agnes Vietor's 1924 A Woman's Quest: The Life of Marie E. Zakrzewska, M.D. Given the major role Zakrzewska played in opening doors for women in U.S. medicine, a new biography …
Bodily and Narrative Forms
Cynthia J. Davis's Bodily and Narrative Forms: The Influence of Medicine on American Literature is an exciting book and an important contribution to the field of literature and medicine. Offering nuanced, informed readings of novels by a wide range of authors, Davis's study is important both for its fresh, original commentary on individual U.S. authors and for the larger questions about form--human and literary--that it examines. As Davis explain…
Ideologies of the Anesthetic
Ideologies of the Anesthetic: Professionalism, Egalitarianism and The Ether Controversy * Stephanie Browner (bio) On 16 October 1846, at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, William T. G. Morton, an unknown but enterprising dentist, successfully anesthetized a young man while the renowned surgeon John Collins Warren excised a facial tumor. During the procedure, the patient occasionally "move[d], cr[ied] out, and utter[ed] extraordinary expre…
Authorizing the Body
Authorizing the Body: Scientific Medicine and The Scarlet Letter Stephanie P. Browner College-bound and anxious to choose a career, Hawthorne writes to his mother in 1821: "I have not yet concluded what profession I shall have." He rejects three professions. He will not be a minister, Hawthorne writes, because he "was not born to vegetate . . . and to live and die as calm and tranquil as—A Puddle of Water." Law, he argues, is unacceptable because…
The Science of Abolition
In The Science of Abolition, Eric Herschthal makes a nuanced and responsible course-correction argument. He does not challenge scholarship that traces the ways race-based slavery is deeply modern and was woven into eighteenth- and nineteenth-century scientific thought. And he acknowledges that antislavery technological and scientific arguments often sidestepped questions of Black equality and citizenship, functioning as a “kind of anti-politics” …
Ideologies of the Anesthetic
Ideologies of the Anesthetic: Professionalism, Egalitarianism and The Ether Controversy * Stephanie Browner (bio) On 16 October 1846, at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, William T. G. Morton, an unknown but enterprising dentist, successfully anesthetized a young man while the renowned surgeon John Collins Warren excised a facial tumor. During the procedure, the patient occasionally "move[d], cr[ied] out, and utter[ed] extraordinary expre…
Authorizing the Body
Authorizing the Body: Scientific Medicine and The Scarlet Letter Stephanie P. Browner College-bound and anxious to choose a career, Hawthorne writes to his mother in 1821: "I have not yet concluded what profession I shall have." He rejects three professions. He will not be a minister, Hawthorne writes, because he "was not born to vegetate . . . and to live and die as calm and tranquil as—A Puddle of Water." Law, he argues, is unacceptable because…
Ideologies of the Anesthetic
Ideologies of the Anesthetic: Professionalism, Egalitarianism and The Ether Controversy * Stephanie Browner (bio) On 16 October 1846, at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, William T. G. Morton, an unknown but enterprising dentist, successfully anesthetized a young man while the renowned surgeon John Collins Warren excised a facial tumor. During the procedure, the patient occasionally "move[d], cr[ied] out, and utter[ed] extraordinary expre…
Bodily and Narrative Forms
Cynthia J. Davis's Bodily and Narrative Forms: The Influence of Medicine on American Literature is an exciting book and an important contribution to the field of literature and medicine. Offering nuanced, informed readings of novels by a wide range of authors, Davis's study is important both for its fresh, original commentary on individual U.S. authors and for the larger questions about form--human and literary--that it examines. As Davis explain…
Science Has No Sex
Arleen Marcia Tuchman's meticulously researched biography of Marie Zakrzewska makes a valuable contribution to the history of women in nineteenth-century American medicine. Zakrzewska's life has earned some discussion in recent studies, but there has been no biography since Agnes Vietor's 1924 A Woman's Quest: The Life of Marie E. Zakrzewska, M.D. Given the major role Zakrzewska played in opening doors for women in U.S. medicine, a new biography …
The Medical Imagination
The Medical Imagination is a thorough, deeply researched investigation into the role of literature in medical knowledge from Benjamin Rush at the end of the eighteenth century to Oliver Wendell Holmes and S. Weir Mitchell before the Civil War. Sari Altschuler is interested in epistemic crises generated, she argues, by such events as yellow fever and cholera epidemics and the discovery of anesthesia. In a chapter titled “Difference,” for example, …
The Science of Abolition
In The Science of Abolition, Eric Herschthal makes a nuanced and responsible course-correction argument. He does not challenge scholarship that traces the ways race-based slavery is deeply modern and was woven into eighteenth- and nineteenth-century scientific thought. And he acknowledges that antislavery technological and scientific arguments often sidestepped questions of Black equality and citizenship, functioning as a “kind of anti-politics” …
Houghton Mifflin Readers’ Reports and the Shape of Charles W. Chesnutt's Literary Career
Between 1891 and 1931, Charles Chesnutt submitted fiction to Houghton Mifflin Company of Boston. The in-house readers’ reports reveal racial preconceptions, commercial concerns, and institutional self-perception, and they shed light on the trajectory of Chesnutt’s career with the elite firm—four books in rapid succession and then rejections
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