03319nam 2200637 450 991082704380332120211002224334.01-5017-5833-01-5017-5835-710.1515/9781501758348(CKB)4100000012000560(OCoLC)1240263373(MdBmJHUP)muse97135(MiAaPQ)EBC6465300(Au-PeEL)EBL6465300(StDuBDS)EDZ0002656227(DE-B1597)577537(OCoLC)1269268676(DE-B1597)9781501758348(EXLCZ)99410000001200056020211122d2021 fy| 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierMorbid undercurrents medical subcultures in postrevolutionary France /Sean M. Quinlan[electronic resource]Ithaca :Cornell University Press,2021.1 online resource (1 online resource)Cornell scholarship onlineAlso issued in print: 2021.1-5017-5834-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.Cornell scholarship online.MedicineFranceHistory18th centuryMedicineFranceHistory19th centurySocial medicineFranceHistory18th centurySocial medicineFranceHistory19th centuryIntellectual lifeHistoryPhilosophy and the life sciencesMedicineHistoryMedicineHistorySocial medicineHistorySocial medicineHistoryIntellectual lifeHistory.Philosophy and the life sciences.362.10944Quinlan Sean M.1629676StDuBDSStDuBDSBOOK9910827043803321Morbid undercurrents3967557UNINA