Romance, Poetry, and Surgical Sleep: Literature Influences Medicine (Contributions in Medical Studies)

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Summary: Interesting interdisciplinary thesis
Review: Papper's thesis is simple and convincing: the ideas of romantic subjectivism were necessary in order for the alleviation of pain to become a medical concern. He traces the emerging importance of the individual and subjective emotion through Romantic Literature of the late 18th and early 19th century.