French medical culture in the nineteenth century / / edited by Ann La Berge and Mordechai Feingold.
The eleven essays in this volume illustrate the richness, complexity, and diversity of French medical culture in the nineteenth century, a period that witnessed the medicalization of French society. Medical themes permeated contemporary culture and politics, and medical discourse infused many levels...
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| Superior document: | Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Atlanta, Georgia : : Rodopi,, [1994] ©1994 |
| Year of Publication: | 1994 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Acknowledgements / Ann La Berge and Mordechai Feingold
- Notes on Contributors / Ann La Berge and Mordechai Feingold
- Preface / Ann La Berge and Mordechai Feingold
- Introduction / Ann La Berge and Mordechai Feingold
- Academic Medicine and Medical Industrialism: The Regulation of Secret Remedies in Nineteenth-Century France / Matthew Ramsey
- Consultation by Letter in Early Eighteenth-Century Paris: The Medical Practice of Etienne-François Geoffroy / Laurence Brockliss
- Private Practice and Public Research: The Patients of R. T. H. Laennec / Jacalyn Duffin
- The Development of Medical Specialization in Nineteenth-Century Paris / George Weisz
- Doctors and Families in France, 1880-1930: The Cultural Reconstruction of Medicine / Martha L. Hildreth
- The Uses of Male Hysteria: Medical and Literary Discourse in Nineteenth-Century France / Jan Goldstein
- From Religious to Bio-Medical Anti-Semitism: The Career of Jules Soury / Toby Gelfand
- Vicq d'Azyr, Anatomy and a Vision of Medicine / Caroline Hannaway
- Medical Microscopy in Paris, 1830-1855 / Ann La Berge
- Bacteriological Research and Medical Practice in and out of the Pastorian School / Anne Marie Moulin
- La Visite: Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Paris Medical Clinics / Joy Harvey
- Index / Ann La Berge and Mordechai Feingold.