S. Weir Mitchell, 1829–1914

Nancy Cervetti is Professor of English at Avila University.

• ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsA Note on the TextIntroduction1Family Matters2Letters Home3The Young Physiologist4War’s Awful Harvest5Wind and Tide6Pandora’s Box7The Apple or the Rose8The Literary Physician9Combat Zones10Great Doctor, Poet, and Salmon Killer11Winter’s Sorrow12The New CenturyEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex

“Cervetti has produced an elegantly written, incredibly detailed, and impressively comprehensive narrative of Mitchell’s journey from the insecure son of an overbearing father to the highly esteemed and influential researcher and clinician in physiology and neurology to a kind of medical public intellectual and literat[us].”—Richard A. Meckel Journal of American History