Morbid Undercurrents : : Medical Subcultures in Postrevolutionary France / / Sean M. Quinlan.
In Morbid Undercurrents, Sean M. Quinlan follows the way that 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 d...
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| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (336 p.) :; 39 b&w halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Morbid Undercurrents—Medicine and Culture after the Revolution
- 1. Settings: The Cultural World of Medical Practice, ca. 1750–1800
- 2. Medicine in the Boudoir: The Marquis de Sade and Medical Understanding after the Reign of Terror
- 3. Writing Sexual Difference: The Natural History of Women and Gendered Visions, ca. 1800
- 4. Seeing and Knowing: Readers and Physiognomic Science
- 5. Sex and the Citizen: Reproductive Manuals and Fashionable Readers under the Napoleonic State
- 6. Sculpting Ideal Bodies: Medicine, Aesthetics, and Desire in the Artist’s Studio
- 7. The Mesmerist Renaissance: Medical Undercurrents and Testing the Limits of Scientific Authority
- 8. Physiology as Literary Genre: Passions, Taste, and Social Agendas under the Restoration and July Monarchy
- Epilogue: Medicine, Writing, and Subcultures after the Revolution
- Notes
- Index