Medicine and society in France
Subtitle: selections from the Annales, economies, sociétés, civilisations, volume 6
By: edited by Robert Forster and Orest Ranum ; translated by Elborg Forster and Patricia M. Ranum.
Contributors: Forster, Robert, 1926-; Ranum, Orest A.
Publisher: John Hopkins University Press; The Johns Hopkins University Press; Brand: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 176
Subjects: Medicine -- France -- History -- 18th century.; Medical care -- France -- History -- 18th century.; France -- Social conditions -- 18th century.
Other titles: Annales (Paris, France : 1946)
Description: This volume takes the approach that medicine is a social phenomenon with a biological basis and an intellectual content. While diseases, societies, and ideas can change independently of one another or concurrently, the conjuncture of the three is at the heart of medical practice. The essays included in this book explore the relationships between medicine and the society and time in which it was practiced.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Goubert, J.-P. The art of healing.; title: Léonard, J. Women, religion, and medicine.; title: Morel, M.-F. City and country in eighteenth-century medical discussions about early childhood.; title: Roche, D. Talent, reason, and sacrifice.; title: Farge, A. Work-related diseases of artisans in eigtheenth-century France.; title: Joerger, M. The structure of the hospital system in France in the ancien régime.; title: Laget, M. Childbirth in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France.