The Damnation of Harold Frederic: His Lives and Works

1998 ◽  
Vol 70 (2) ◽  
pp. 408
Author(s):  
Susan Albertine ◽  
Harold Frederic ◽  
Bridget Bennett
Keyword(s):  
Harold Frederic

The Novels of Harold Frederic

1970 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 266
Author(s):  
Virginia R. Terris ◽  
Austin Briggs
Keyword(s):  
Harold Frederic

The Correspondence of Harold Frederic.

1978 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 290
Author(s):  
John Henry Raleigh ◽  
George E. Fortenberry ◽  
Stanton Garner ◽  
Robert H. Woodward
Keyword(s):  
Harold Frederic

Harold Frederic

1963 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 251
Author(s):  
Everett Carter ◽  
Thomas F. O'Donnell ◽  
Hoyt C. Franchere
Keyword(s):  
Harold Frederic

Humble Humbugs and Good Frauds: Harold Frederic, Christian Science, and the Anglo-American Professions

2018 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
pp. 353-378 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Ashley Squires
Keyword(s):  
Medical Profession ◽  
Christian Science ◽  
Public Controversy ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Harold Frederic ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
Theron Ware ◽  
Damnation Of Theron Ware

L. Ashley Squires, “Humble Humbugs and Good Frauds: Harold Frederic, Christian Science, and the Anglo-American Professions” (pp. 353–378) In October 1898, American novelist Harold Frederic died of complications following a stroke while in the care of a Christian Scientist named Athalie Goodman Mills, summoned to his bedside by the author’s mistress, Kate Lyon. His death was later the subject of a coroner’s inquest and unsuccessful manslaughter charge, making the author’s death central to an already raging debate about the efforts of an ascendant medical profession to criminalize the activities of healers they saw as illegitimate. This essay reads the public controversy as represented in newspapers and medical journals alongside Frederic’s The Damnation of Theron Ware (1896), arguing that both texts demonstrate a widening epistemic gap between an ascendant class of experts and the broader public they served. In each, the concept of placebo emerges as a useful organizing metaphor for this tension. In the wake of cases like Frederic’s, many physicians began advocating for a broader use of “suggestive therapeutics” in response to the challenge that Christian Science presented, raising discomfiting epistemic and ethical questions because its use presumes a dissonance between what the doctor knows and what the patient believes. The ministers in The Damnation of Theron Ware likewise confront the problem of administering a kind of theological placebo, a primitive faith demanded by their congregants that the ministers themselves have come to doubt. Placebo therefore describes a way in which experts could assert their relevance and social necessity in the face of populist energies, exemplified in Christian Science, that challenged their rise to dominance.

The Correspondence of Harold Frederic

1978 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 126
Author(s):  
Richard Hauer Costa ◽  
George E. Fortenberry ◽  
Stanton Garner ◽  
Robert H. Woodward ◽  
Charlyne Dodge ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Harold Frederic
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