Professions and the French State, 1700-1900 / / Gerald L. Geison.
This collection of essays represents the first focused attempt to treat the professions in France as a single large historical problem. It is at once a contribution to the history of the professions and to the social history of France. The essays point toward a common conclusion: in the French conte...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub) |
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Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016] ©1984 |
Year of Publication: | 2016 |
Edition: | Reprint 2016 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (322 p.) :; 3 illus. |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Bridges and Barriers: Narrowing Access and Changing Structure in the French Engineering Profession, 1800-1850 -- 2. Science, the University, and the State in Nineteenth-Century France -- 3. A “Monarchical Profession” in the Old Regime: Surgeons, Ordinary Practitioners, and Medical Professionalization in Eighteenth-Century France -- 4. “Moral Contagion”: A Professional Ideology of Medicine and Psychiatry in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century France -- 5. The Politics of Professional Monopoly in Nineteenth-Century Medicine: The French Model and Its Rivals -- Index -- Notes on Contributors |
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Summary: | This collection of essays represents the first focused attempt to treat the professions in France as a single large historical problem. It is at once a contribution to the history of the professions and to the social history of France. The essays point toward a common conclusion: in the French context, by striking contrast to standard Anglo-American assumptions, professional "autonomy," power, and success virtually require "dependence" on the state. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781512801934 9783110442526 |
DOI: | 10.9783/9781512801934 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Gerald L. Geison. |