Arrowsmith Goes Native
Medicine and Empire in Fiction and Film
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4745536 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lisa L Lynch (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 89-103 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Mosaic (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0027-1276 • E-ISSN: 1925-5683 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/mos.2021.0009 |
| OpenAlex | W282226636 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
This essay examines how evolving perceptions of America's role as a world power in the interwar period affect representations of medical research and practice. It argues that Sinclair Lewis's novel Arrowsmith, and the film based on that novel, construct an imperial role for the United States in their depictions of American scientific medicine
Aesthetics · Affect (linguistics) · Ancient history · Art · Construct (python library) · Empire · Epistemology · Perception · Period (music) · Physics · Power (physics) · Sociology · Computer Science · History · Medical History and Innovations · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2018 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |