The Great Nation in Decline
Subtitle: Sex, Modernity and Health Crises in Revolutionary France C.1750û1850 (The History of Medicine in Context)
Publisher: Ashgate Pub Co; Ashgate
Published: December 31, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9780754660989
Subjects: History of medicine; Social history; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; History; History: World; Modern - General; 18th century; 19th century; France; Hygiene, Sexual; Public health
Description: This work examines how doctors contributed to a much broader public discussion about physical degeneracy and depopulation in France between roughly 1750 to 1850, a period in which leading intellectuals and public officials believed that the 'great nation' was menaced by decadence and decline.