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Autore |
Quinlan Sean M. |
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Titolo |
Morbid undercurrents : medical subcultures in postrevolutionary France / / Sean M. Quinlan [[electronic resource]] |
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Ithaca : , : Cornell University Press, , 2021 |
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ISBN |
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1-5017-5833-0 |
1-5017-5835-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (1 online resource) |
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Collana |
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Cornell scholarship online |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Also issued in print: 2021. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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