Defeated flesh
Subtitle: medicine, welfare, and warfare in the making of modern France
By: Bertrand Taithe.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
Subjects: Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871 -- Medical care -- France.; Medical care -- France -- History -- 19th century.; Paris (France) -- History -- Commune, 1871.; France -- Social conditions -- 19th century.; France -- History -- Third Republic, 1870-1940.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-286) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1 Memories of war: 1870-71 1; title: Meanings attributed to the war 4; title: Defeated flesh 18; title: 2 The Franco-Prussian war, revolution and Commune: an overview 25; title: The origin debates 26; title: Immediate causes of the war 29; title: The war and defeat 30; title: Politics and the Commune 40; title: Conclusion 43; title: 3 The politics of social practice: medicine, war and revolution in Paris 46; title: French medicine in 1870 48; title: Health in Paris in 1870 53; title: Revolution and medicine 61; title: 4 Militarisation and war effort: Paris, the 'giant hospital' 71; title: Military medicine 75; title: The 'giant hospital' 83; title: Discipline and space 89; title: Post-war 96; title: 5 The politics of care and order 99; title: To free Paris 101; title: To feed Paris 106; title: The politics of food 114; title: The politics of care 121; title: 6 Revolutionary society and medicine 130; title: Towards secular medicine 132; title: Doctors against the Commune 141; title: The agony of the Commune 146; title: Conclusion 150; title: 7 The dynamics of humanitarianism and the making of the Red Cross 155; title: Humanitarianism 157; title: Official movements 164; title: Voluntary movements 170; title: Ideology 174; title: Conclusion 177; title: 8 Defeat embodied: the severed limbs of the nation 180; title: Bodyloss 181; title: Outliving war 193; title: Conclusion 206; title: 9 Seeds of defeat: alcohol and syphilis 208; title: From the cabaret to the grave 210; title: Syphilis 217; title: Shifting regulation 222; title: Symbolic regulation and prohibition 227; title: Conclusion 229; title: 10 Conclusion: war stories 233; title: Bibliography 241; title: Index 287.