French Medical Culture in the Nineteenth Century

Erscheinungsjahr 1994
ISBN: 978-90-5183-561-8
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 25, 388 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 225 mm, Gewicht: 635 g

Reihe: Clio Medica

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 of French society from the bastions of science - the medical faculties and research institutions - to novels, the theater, and the daily lives of citizens as patients.
The contributors to this volume - all established scholars in the history of medicine - present the French medical experience from the point of view of both practitioners and patients, and show how medical themes colored popular perceptions and shaped public policies. Topics addressed range from popular medicine to elite Parisian medicine, the interaction of literary and medical discourse, social theater, medical research and practice, medical specialization and education. The essays reflect current trends of medico-historical analysis which emphasize the centrality of class, race, and gender in understanding concepts of disease and the practice of medicine. They show how the medical experience of patients, practitioners, students, and researchers varied according to social class, gender, and geography and the importance of these factors for the construction of disease.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

La Berge, Ann

Feingold, Mordechai

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

Preface

Introduction

Ann LA BERGE and Mordechai FEINGOLD

1, Academic Medicine and Medical Industrialism: The Regulation of Secret Remedies in Nineteenth-Century France

Matthew RAMSEY

2. Consultation by Letter in Early Eighteenth Century Paris: The Medical Practice of Etienne-François Geoffroy

Laurence BROCKLISS

3. Private Practice and Public Research: The Patients of René Théophile Laennec

Jackie DUFFIN

4. The Development of Medical Specialization in Nineteenth-Century Paris

George WEISZ

5. Doctors and Families in France, 1880-1930: The Cultural Reconstruction of Medicine

Martha HILDRETH

6. The Uses of Male Hysteria: Medicine and Literary Discourse in Nineteenth-Century France

Jan GOLDSTEIN

7. From Religious to Bio-Medical Semitism: The Career of Jules Soury

Toby GELFAND

8. Vicq d'Azyr, Anatomy, and a Vision of Medicine

Caroline HANNAWAY

9. Medical Microscopy in Paris, 1830-1855

Ann LA BERGE

10. Bacteriological Research and Medical Practice in and out of the Pastorian School

Anne Marie MOULIN

11. La Visite: mary Putnam Jacobi and the Paris Medical Clinics

Joy HARVEY

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ann La Berge is Associate Professor of Humanities and Science and Technology Studies at Virginia Polytechnic institute and State University. She is the author of Mission and Method: The Early Nineteenth-Century French Public Health Movement (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992) and has written on puericulture and the medicalization of child care in France.



Mordechai Feingold is Associate Professor of Science and Technology at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. A historian of science, he is currently working on a history of the Royal Society and the diffusion of Newtonianism.