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LOCATION:The Heyman Center\, Second Floor Common Room
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SUMMARY:The Medical Imagination: Literature and Health in the Early 
 United States
DESCRIPTION:In 1872\, Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote\, "Science does not know i
 ts debt to imagination\," words that still ring true in the w
 orlds of health and health care today. We know a great deal 
 about the empirical aspects of medicine\, but we know far les
 s about what the medical imagination is\, what it does\, how i
 t works\, or how we might train it. But it was not always so.
  In this lecture\, Sari Altschuler will be talking about her 
 new book on the history of the medical imagination. During t
 he 18th and 19th centuries in the United States\, doctors und
 erstood the imagination to be directly connected to health\, 
 intimately involved in healing\, and central to medical disco
 very. Literature provided health writers important forms for
  crafting\, testing\, and implementing theories of health. Rea
 ding and writing poetry trained judgment\, cultivated inventi
 veness\, sharpened observation\, and supplied evidence for med
 ical research\, while novels and short stories offered new si
 tes for experimenting with original medical theories. Health
  research and practice relied on a broader complex of knowin
 g\, in which imagination often worked with observation\, exper
 ience\, and empirical research. In reframing the historical r
 elationship between literature and health\, The Medical Imagi
 nation provides a usable past for our own conversations abou
 t the imagination and the humanities in health research and 
 practice today.
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