The great nation in decline
Subtitle: sex, modernity, and health crises in revolutionary France c.1750-1850
By: Sean M. Quinlan.
Series: History of medicine in context
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Aldershot, England; Burlington, Vt
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780754660989
Subjects: Public health -- France -- History -- 18th century; Public health -- France -- History -- 19th century; Hygiene, Sexual -- France -- History -- 18th century; Hygiene, Sexual -- France -- History -- 19th century; Social medicine -- France -- History -- 18th century; Social medicine -- France -- History -- 19th century; Degeneration -- France -- History -- 18th century; Degeneration -- France -- History -- 19th century; Hygiene -- history -- France; History, 18th Century -- France; History, 19th Century -- France; Morals -- France; Physician's Role -- history -- France; Social Conditions -- history -- France
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: A medical diagnosis of social crisis, 1750-1770; title: Mapping social disease: depopulation and institutional responses, ca. 1770-1789; title: Colonial bodies and hygiene in the Antilles, ca. 1750-1794; title: Doctors, regeneration and the revolutionary crucible, 1789-1804; title: Uncertain territory and fragmented agendas; title: 1804-1830; title: From cholera to degeneration, ca. 1830-1848; title: Degeneration and regeneration after 1850.