Title Human Remains : Medicine, Death, and Desire in Nineteenth-Century Paris

Published Bronx : Fordham University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (411 pages) Contents Cover -- Contents -- Note on Translations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Toxic Imagination -- Medicine and Authority -- The Medical Uses of Nonsense -- A Hostile Environment -- Death Comes Alive -- Pleasure in Revolt -- Monsters and Artists -- Abstracting Desire -- What Abjection Means Summary The living and the dead cohabited Paris until the late 18th century, when, in the name of public health, measures were taken to drive the latter from the city. Cemeteries were removed from urban space, and corpses started to be viewed as terrifyingly noxious substances. Working across a broad range of disciplines this book seeks to understand the meaning of the dead and their role in creating one of the most important cities of the contemporary world Notes Print version record Subject Dead -- Social aspects -- History -- 19th century Death -- France -- Paris -- History -- 19th century Human body -- Social aspects -- France -- Paris -- History -- 19th century Medicine -- France -- Paris -- History -- 19th century Public health -- France -- Paris -- History -- 19th century Dead -- Social aspects Death Human body -- Social aspects Medicine Public health Social conditions SUBJECT Paris (France) -- Social conditions -- 19th century Subject France -- Paris Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780823269044 0823269043

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