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020 _a9781501758348
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035 _a(OCoLC)1240263373
040 _aMdBmJHUP
_cMdBmJHUP
100 1 _aQuinlan, Sean M.,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aMorbid Undercurrents :
_bMedical Subcultures in Postrevolutionary France /
_cSean M. Quinlan.
264 1 _aIthaca [New York] :
_bCornell University Press,
_c2021.
264 3 _aBaltimore, Md. :
_bProject MUSE,
_c2021
264 4 _c©2021.
300 _a1 online resource (336 pages).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
505 0 _aIntroduction: 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.
506 0 _aOpen Access
_fUnrestricted online access
_2star
520 _a"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"--
_cProvided by publisher.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 7 _aSocial medicine.
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_0(OCoLC)fst01122637
650 7 _aPhilosophy and the life sciences.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01764467
650 7 _aMedicine.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01014893
650 7 _aIntellectual life.
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_0(OCoLC)fst00975769
650 0 _aPhilosophy and the life sciences.
650 0 _aIntellectual life
_xHistory.
650 0 _aSocial medicine
_zFrance
_xHistory
_y19th century.
650 0 _aSocial medicine
_zFrance
_xHistory
_y18th century.
650 0 _aMedicine
_zFrance
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_y19th century.
650 0 _aMedicine
_zFrance
_xHistory
_y18th century.
651 7 _aFrance.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01204289
655 7 _aHistory.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01411628
655 7 _aElectronic books.
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710 2 _aProject Muse.
_edistributor
830 0 _aBook collections on Project MUSE.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/book/85572/
945 _aProject MUSE - 2021 Complete
945 _aProject MUSE - 2021 History
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