Verfasst von:	Quinlan, Sean Michael [VerfasserIn]
Titel:	Morbid undercurrents
Titelzusatz:	medical subcultures in postrevolutionary France
Verf.angabe:	Sean M. Quinlan
Verlagsort:	Ithaca, New York ; London
Verlag:	Cornell University Press
Jahr:	2021
Umfang:	x, 318 pages
Illustrationen:	illustrations
Fussnoten:	Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:	978-1-5017-5833-1
Abstract:	Introduction: morbid undercurrents-medicine and culture after the revolution -- Settings: the cultural world of medical practice, ca. 1750-1800 -- Medicine in the boudoir: the Marquis de Sade and medical understanding after the Reign of Terror -- Writing sexual difference: the natural history of women and gendered visions, ca. 1800 -- Seeing and knowing: readers and physiognomic science -- Sex and the citizen: reproductive manuals and fashionable readers under the Napoleonic state -- Sculpting ideal bodies: medicine, aesthetics, and desire in the artist's studio -- The mesmerist renaissance: medical undercurrents and testing the limits of scientific authority -- Physiology as literary genre: passions, taste, and social agendas under the Restoration and July monarchy -- Epilogue: medicine, writing, and subculture after the revolution.
	"This book examines the proliferation of medical subcultures and genres following the "medical revolution" in France, tracing the intersections between writing and sociopolitical fragmentation. The analysis shows that biomedical science provided a central means for contemporaries to imagine self and society, becoming a malleable and subversive force in the age of revolution"--
Schlagwörter:	(s)Medizin    / (s)Sozialmedizin    / (s)Vergleichende Ideengeschichte    / (z)Geschichte
Sprache:	eng
Bibliogr. Hinweis:	Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Quinlan, Sean M: Morbid undercurrents. - Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021 |(DLC)2021008210
	Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Quinlan, Sean M: Morbid undercurrents. - Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2021. - 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 318 Seiten)
RVK-Notation:	XB 3700
K10plus-PPN:	175051205X