The Physical and the Moral - Anthropology, Physiology, and Philosophical Medicine in France, 1750–1850

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Montpellier vitalism and the science of man; 2. Anthropological medicine and the medical revolution; 3. Medical politics under the restoration: the fragmentation of the science of man; 4. Decline and dispersal: the science of man, 1830-48; Epilogue; Index.

Zusammenfassung

This book explores the tradition of the 'science of man' in French medicine of the era 1750–1850. Its chief purpose is to recover the history of a holistic tradition in French medicine that has been neglected because it lay outside the mainstream themes of modern medicine.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Elizabeth A. Williams, Williams Elizabeth A.
• Mitarbeit: Colin Jones (Herausgeber), Charles Rosenberg (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Cambridge Academic
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 29.04.1994
• EAN: 9780521430678
• ISBN: 978-0-521-43067-8
• Abmessung: 152 mm x 229 mm x 21 mm
• Gewicht: 586 g
• Illustration: 12 b/w illus., Raster, nicht spezifiziert
• Serien: Studies in Natural Language Pr; Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine
• Themen: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Medizin > Allgemeines; MEDICAL / History, History of Medicine