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Morbid Undercurrents
- Medical Subcultures in Postrevolutionary France
Engelsk
Bogcover for Morbid Undercurrents af Sean M. Quinlan, 9781501781353
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
336
ISBN-13:
9781501781353
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1501781359
Udg. Dato:
15 jun 2025
Størrelse i cm:
22,8 x 15,3 x 2,3
Oplagsdato:
15 jun 2025
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Morbid Undercurrents

- Medical Subcultures in Postrevolutionary France
Engelsk
Paperback 2025
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In Morbid Undercurrents, Sean M. Quinlan follows how 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—from forensic investigation to evolutionary biology—and their innovations captivated the public imagination. During the 1790s and beyond, medicine left the somber halls of universities, hospitals, and learned societies and became profoundly politicized, inspiring a whole panoply of different—often bizarre and shocking—subcultures. Quinlan reconstructs the ethos of the time and its labyrinthine underworld, traversing the intersection between medicine and pornography in the works of the Marquis de Sade, efforts to create a "natural history of women," the proliferation of sex manuals and books on family hygiene, anatomical projects to sculpt antique bodies, the rage for physiognomic self-help books that taught readers to identify social and political "types" in post-revolutionary Paris, the use of physiological medicine as a literary genre, and the "mesmerist renaissance" with its charged debates over animal magnetism and somnambulism. In creating this reconstruction, Quinlan argues that the place and authority of medicine evolved, at least in part, out of an attempt to redress the acute sense of dislocation produced by the Revolution. Morbid Undercurrents exposes how medicine then became a subversive, radical, and ideologically charged force in French society.
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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
336
ISBN-13:
9781501781353
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1501781359
Udg. Dato:
15 jun 2025
Størrelse i cm:
22,8 x 15,3 x 2,3
Oplagsdato:
15 jun 2025
Forfatter(e):
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