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Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
French Medical Culture in the Nineteenth Century
Author: Ann Elizabeth Fowler La BergePublisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9789051835618
Category : History of Medicine, 19th Cent. / France
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
The eleven essays in this volume illustrate the richness, complexity, and diversity of French medical culture in the nineteenth century, a period that witnessed the medicalization of French society. Medical themes permeated contemporary culture and politics, and medical discourse infused many levels of French society from the bastions of science - the medical faculties and research institutions - to novels, the theater, and the daily lives of citizens as patients. The contributors to this volume - all established scholars in the history of medicine - present the French medical experience from the point of view of both practitioners and patients, and show how medical themes colored popular perceptions and shaped public policies. Topics addressed range from popular medicine to elite Parisian medicine, the interaction of literary and medical discourse, social theater, medical research and practice, medical specialization and education. The essays reflect current trends of medico-historical analysis which emphasize the centrality of class, race, and gender in understanding concepts of disease and the practice of medicine. They show how the medical experience of patients, practitioners, students, and researchers varied according to social class, gender, and geography and the importance of these factors for the construction of disease.
British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Author: The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Localizing the Moral Sense
Author: Jan VerplaetsePublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1402063229
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
Due to the current revolution in brain research the search for the “moral brain” became a serious endeavour. Nowadays, neural circuits that are indispensable for moral and social behaviour are discovered and the brains of psychopaths and criminals - the classical anti-heroes of morality - are scanned with curiosity, even enthusiasm. How revolutionary this current research might be, the quest for a localisable ethical centre or moral organ is far from new. The moral brain was a recurrent theme in the works of neuroscientists during the 19th and 20th century. From the phrenology era to the encephalitis pandemic in the 1920s a wide range of European and American scientists (neurologists, psychiatrists, anthropologists and criminologists) speculated about and discussed the location of a moral sense in the human cortex. Encouraged by medical discoveries and concerned by terrifying phenomena like crime or “moral insanity” (psychopathy) even renowned and outstanding neurologists, including Moritz Benedikt, Paul Flechsig, Arthur Van Gehuchten, Oskar Vogt or Constantin von Monakow, had the nerve to make their speculations public. This book presents the first overview of believers and disbelievers in a cerebral seat of human morality, their positions and arguments and offers an explanation for these historical attempts to localise our moral sense, in spite of the massive disapproving commentary launched by colleagues.
Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum
Author: British LibraryIndex Medicus
Author: General catalogue of printed books
Author: British museum. Dept. of printed booksPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
The Fictions of the Self
Author: Gordon ShentonPublisher: Unc Department of Romance Studies
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Volume 214 in the North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures series.
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