The Great Nation in Decline: Sex, Modernity and Health Crises in Revolutionary France c.1750–1850 (The History of Medicine in Context) - Image 1

£137.15

Routledge The Great Nation in Decline: Sex, Modernity and Health Crises in Revolutionary France c.1750–1850 (The History of Medicine in Context)

Name: The Great Nation in Decline: Sex, Modernity and Health Crises in Revolutionary France c.1750-1850 (The History of Medicine in Context)
Brand: Routledge
Price: 148.84 GBP
Availability: InStock

Anthropology & Sociology

Price History & Forecast

Last 20 days • 20 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 20 days • 2 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £149 (15 days, 75.0%)

Price range: £137 - £149

Price levels: 2 different prices over 20 days

Description

This book studies how doctors responded to - and helped shape - deep-seated fears about nervous degeneracy and population decline in France between 1750 and 1850. It uncovers a rich and far-ranging medical debate in which four generations of hygiene activists used biomedical science to transform the self, sexuality and community in order to regenerate a sick and decaying nation; a programme doctors labelled 'physical and moral hygiene'. Moreover, it is shown how doctors imparted biomedical ideas and language that allowed lay people to make sense of often bewildering socio-political changes, thereby giving them a sense of agency and control over these events. Combining a chronological and thematic approach, the six chapters in this book trace how doctors began their medical crusade during the middle of the Enlightenment, how this activism flowered during the French Revolution, and how they then revised their views during the period of post-revolutionary reaction. The study concludes by arguing that medicine acquired an unprecedented political, social and cultural position in French society, with doctors becoming the primary spokesmen for bourgeois values, and thus helped to define the new world that emerged from the post-revolutionary period.

Product Specifications

Brand: Routledge
Format: Hardcover
ASIN: 0754660982
Category: Books > Subjects > Biography > Medical, Legal & Social Sciences > Anthropology & Sociology
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 28 December 2007
Listed Since: 03 July 2007

Barcode

No barcode data available

Routledge The Great Nation in Decline: Sex, Modernity and Health Crises in Revolutionary France c.1750–1850 (The History of Medicine in Context)

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

The Physical and the Moral: Anthropology, Physiology, and Philosophical Medicine in France, 1750–1850 (Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine)

The History of Medicine (Critical Concepts in Historical Studies)

Chemistry, Pharmacy and Revolution in France, 1777-1809 (Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945)

Routledge - A Social History of Medicine: England 1750-1950

National Healths: Gender, Sexuality and Health in a Cross-Cultural Context (Ucl S)

Menstruation and Procreation in Early Modern France (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World)

Routledge - A Cultural History of Medical Vitalism in Montpellier

The Making of the Dentiste, c. 1650-1760 (The History of Medicine in Context)

Menstruation and Procreation in Early Modern France

Fertility, Family, and Social Welfare between France and Empire: The Colonial Politics of Population (New Directions in Welfare History)

The French Revolution in Culture and Society: 23 (Contributions to the Study of World History)

Medicine in the Making of Modern Britain, 1700-1920 (Historical Connections)

Doctors, Bureaucrats, and Public Health in France: 1888-1902: 6 (Routledge Library Editions: History of Medicine)

The French Invention of Menopause and the Medicalisation of Women's Ageing: A History

Routledge - Hospital Politics in 17th-Century France Book

Patient's Progress: Doctors and Doctoring in Eighteenth-century England

Routledge - Female Sexuality and Cultural Degradation in France

Routledge - Civic Catechisms and Reason in the French Revolution

Foucault, Health and Medicine

Health and Medicine in the circum-Caribbean, 1800–1968 (Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine)

Medicine in Modern Britain 1780-1950 (Seminar Studies)

Religious Renewal in France, 1789-1870: The Roman Catholic Church between Catastrophe and Triumph

History of Medicine

France 1715-1804: Power and the People (Social History of Europe)