| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 318 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction: morbid undercurrents-medicine and culture after the revolution -- Settings: the cultural world of medical practice, ca. 1750-1800 -- Medicine in the boudoir: the Marquis de Sade and medical understanding after the Reign of Terror -- Writing sexual difference: the natural history of women and gendered visions, ca. 1800 -- Seeing and knowing: readers and physiognomic science -- Sex and the citizen: reproductive manuals and fashionable readers under the Napoleonic state -- Sculpting ideal bodies: medicine, aesthetics, and desire in the artist's studio -- The mesmerist renaissance: medical undercurrents and testing the limits of scientific authority -- Physiology as literary genre: passions, taste, and social agendas under the Restoration and July monarchy -- Epilogue: medicine, writing, and subculture after the revolution |
| Summary |
"This book examines the proliferation of medical subcultures and genres following the "medical revolution" in France, tracing the intersections between writing and sociopolitical fragmentation. The analysis shows that biomedical science provided a central means for contemporaries to imagine self and society, becoming a malleable and subversive force in the age of revolution"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
Medicine -- France -- History -- 18th century
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Medicine -- France -- History -- 19th century
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Social medicine -- France -- History -- 18th century
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Social medicine -- France -- History -- 19th century
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Intellectual life -- History.
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Philosophy and the life sciences.
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HISTORY / Europe / France
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Intellectual life
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Medicine
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Philosophy and the life sciences
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Social medicine
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France
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2021008210 |
| ISBN |
9781501758355 |
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1501758357 |
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9781501758348 |
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1501758349 |
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