Morbid undercurrents : medical subcultures in postrevolutionary France / / Sean M. Quinlan [[electronic resource]]
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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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| Pubblicazione: | Ithaca : , : Cornell University Press, , 2021 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (1 online resource) |
| Disciplina: | 362.10944 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Morbid undercurrents |
| ISBN: | 1-5017-5833-0 |
| 1-5017-5835-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910827043803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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