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Record Nr.

UNINA9910794503303321

Autore

Quinlan Sean M.

Titolo

Morbid undercurrents : medical subcultures in postrevolutionary France / / Sean M. Quinlan [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca : , : Cornell University Press, , 2021

ISBN

1-5017-5833-0

1-5017-5835-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 online resource)

Collana

Cornell scholarship online

Disciplina

362.10944

Soggetti

Medicine - France - History - 18th century

Medicine - France - History - 19th century

Social medicine - France - History - 18th century

Social medicine - France - History - 19th century

Intellectual life - History

Philosophy and the life sciences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Also issued in print: 2021.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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 number of fields - from forensic investigation to evolutionary biology - and their innovations captivated the public imagination.