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 doctors and scientists pioneered a staggering number of fields and these innovations captivated the public imagination.
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 doctors and scientists pioneered a staggering number of fields and these innovations captivated the public imagination.
Sean M. Quinlan is Professor of History and Dean, College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences, at the University of Idaho. He is author of The Great Nation in Decline.
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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 Understandingafter 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 Subculture after the Revolution
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 Understandingafter 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 Subculture after the Revolution
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