Sean M. Quinlan

The Great Nation in Decline (eBook, ePUB)

Sex, Modernity and Health Crises in Revolutionary France c.1750-1850

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book studies how doctors responded to, and helped shape deep-seated fears about nervous degeneracy and population decline in France between 1750 and 1850. It uncovers a rich and far-ranging medical debate in which four generations of hygiene activists used biomedical science to transform the self, sexuality and community in order to regenerate a sick and decaying nation"a programme doctors labelled 'physical and moral hygiene'. The study argues that medicine acquired an unprecedented political, social and cultural position in French society, with doctors becoming the primary spokesmen for bourgeois values, and thus helped to define the new world that emerged from the post-revolutionary period.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317029885
• Artikelnr.: 44863751

Autorenporträt

Sean M. Quinlan is Associate Professor of History at the University of Idaho, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction: degeneration, regeneration, and health panics in modern France
A medical diagnosis of social crisis, c.1750-1770
Depopulation and institutional response, c 1776-1789
Colonial bodies and hygiene in the Antilles, c. 1750-1794
Doctors, regeneration and the revolutionary crucible, 1789-1804
Uncertain territory and fragmented agendas, 1804-1830
From cholera to degeneration, c. 1832-1852
Conclusion: degeneration and regeneration after 1850
Bibliography of printed sources
Index.