Democracy and DNA: American Dreams and Medical Progress - Hardcover
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Weismann, Director of the Division of Rheumatology at New York University-Bellevue Hospital, succeeds in writing an entertaining chronicle of both medical knowledge and artistic advances in the Victorian era. "The meliorist dream" which he refers to in his introduction was a concept coined by George Eliot that roughly characterizes the period's intellectual belief that the world's problems might be diagnosed and solved. Weisman skillfully blends this concept of social progress with its correlate manifestations in the medical field, literature, and politics. However, he does not sacrifice one world for another, e.g. his analysis of Emily Dickinson's literary and medical conditions are equally adept. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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Gerald Weissmann is director of the Division of Rheumatology at New York University - Bellevue Hospital.
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- PublisherHill & Wang Pub
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0809093057
- ISBN 13 9780809093052
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages263
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