Morbid undercurrents medical subcultures in postrevolutionary France
Sean M. Quinlan follows how medical ideas, stemming from the so-called birth of the clinic, zigzagged across the intellectual landscape of the French Revolution and its aftermath. It was a remarkable 'hotspot' in the historical timeline, when doctors and scientists pioneered a staggering n...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press
2021.
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| Colección: | Cornell scholarship online.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009850338406719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
