Infection of the innocents
Subtitle: wet nurses, infants, and syphilis in France, 1780-1900
By: Joan Sherwood
Series: McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health and society -- 37; McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health, and society -- 37.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Montreal
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9780773537415
Subjects: Mercury; Syphilis congénitale; Breast Feeding; Droit; Syphilis; Aspect social; Patients; Traitement; Treatment; Malpractice; Personnel, médical; Congenital Syphilis; Therapeutic use; History; Medical personnel; Hospice de Vaugirard (Paris, France); Nourrices; Social aspects; Legislation & jurisprudence; History, 18th Century; Histoire; Syphilis, Congenital, hereditary, and infantile; History, 19th Century; Therapy; Historie; Reponsabilité professionnelle; Adverse effects; Wet nurses; Legal status, laws
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-207) and index.
Table of contents: title: Mercury and syphilis : a dysfunctional relationship; title: The making of a modern hospital in eighteenth-century Paris; title: The infants of Vaugirard; title: The wet nurse as technology; title: The wet nurse and the law; title: The Doctor exonerated; title: Appendices. Case sources ; Decision of the Court of Dijon, 14 May 1868 ; General legislative and statutory terms.