LEADER 03319nam 2200637 450 001 9910827043803321 005 20211002224334.0 010 $a1-5017-5833-0 010 $a1-5017-5835-7 024 7 $a10.1515/9781501758348 035 $a(CKB)4100000012000560 035 $a(OCoLC)1240263373 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse97135 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6465300 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6465300 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0002656227 035 $a(DE-B1597)577537 035 $a(OCoLC)1269268676 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501758348 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000012000560 100 $a20211122d2021 fy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aMorbid undercurrents $emedical subcultures in postrevolutionary France /$fSean M. Quinlan$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aIthaca :$cCornell University Press,$d2021. 215 $a1 online resource (1 online resource) 225 1 $aCornell scholarship online 300 $aAlso issued in print: 2021. 311 $a1-5017-5834-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: 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. 330 8 $aSean M. Quinlan follows how medical ideas, stemming from the so-called birth of the clinic, zigzagged across the intellectual landscape of the French Revolution and its aftermath. It was a remarkable 'hotspot' in the historical timeline, when doctors and scientists pioneered a staggering number of fields - from forensic investigation to evolutionary biology - and their innovations captivated the public imagination. 410 0$aCornell scholarship online. 606 $aMedicine$zFrance$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aMedicine$zFrance$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aSocial medicine$zFrance$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aSocial medicine$zFrance$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aIntellectual life$xHistory 606 $aPhilosophy and the life sciences 615 0$aMedicine$xHistory 615 0$aMedicine$xHistory 615 0$aSocial medicine$xHistory 615 0$aSocial medicine$xHistory 615 0$aIntellectual life$xHistory. 615 0$aPhilosophy and the life sciences. 676 $a362.10944 700 $aQuinlan$b Sean M.$01629676 801 0$bStDuBDS 801 1$bStDuBDS 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910827043803321 996 $aMorbid undercurrents$93967557 997 $aUNINA