French medical culture in the nineteenth century: 25 (Clio Medica) - Hardcover

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9789051835618: French medical culture in the nineteenth century: 25 (Clio Medica)

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ISBN 10: 9051835612 ISBN 13: 9789051835618

Verlag: RODOPI, 1994

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Rese�a del editor:

The eleven essays in this volume illustrate the richness, complexity, and diversity of French medical culture in the nineteenth century, a period that witnessed the medicalization of French society. Medical themes permeated contemporary culture and politics, and medical discourse infused many levels of French society from the bastions of science - the medical faculties and research institutions - to novels, the theater, and the daily lives of citizens as patients. The contributors to this volume - all established scholars in the history of medicine - present the French medical experience from the point of view of both practitioners and patients, and show how medical themes colored popular perceptions and shaped public policies. Topics addressed range from popular medicine to elite Parisian medicine, the interaction of literary and medical discourse, social theater, medical research and practice, medical specialization and education. The essays reflect current trends of medico-historical analysis which emphasize the centrality of class, race, and gender in understanding concepts of disease and the practice of medicine. They show how the medical experience of patients, practitioners, students, and researchers varied according to social class, gender, and geography and the importance of these factors for the construction of disease.

Biograf�a del autor:

Ann La Berge is Associate Professor of Humanities and Science and Technology Studies at Virginia Polytechnic institute and State University. She is the author of Mission and Method: The Early Nineteenth-Century French Public Health Movement (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992) and has written on puericulture and the medicalization of child care in France. Mordechai Feingold is Associate Professor of Science and Technology at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. A historian of science, he is currently working on a history of the Royal Society and the diffusion of Newtonianism.

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