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The great nation in decline : sex, modernity and health crises in revolutionary France c.1750-1850 / Sean M. Quinlan.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Quinlan, Sean M.
- Series:
- History of medicine in context
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public health--France--History--18th century.
- Public health.
- Public health--France--History--19th century.
- Sexual health--France--History--18th century.
- Sexual health.
- Sexual health--France--History--19th century.
- Social medicine--France--History--18th century.
- Social medicine.
- Social medicine--France--History--19th century.
- Degeneration--France--History--18th century.
- Degeneration.
- Degeneration--France--History--19th century.
- Hygiene--history.
- History.
- France.
- History, 18th Century.
- History, 19th Century.
- Morals.
- Physician's Role--history.
- Social Conditions--history.
- Medical Subjects:
- Hygiene--history.
- France.
- History, 18th Century.
- History, 19th Century.
- Morals.
- Physician's Role--history.
- Social Conditions--history.
- Physical Description:
- x, 265 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2007]
- Contents:
- Introduction : degenerations, regeneration and health panics in modern France - A medical diagnosis of social crisis, 1750-1770
- Depopulation and institutional responses, ca. 1770-1789
- Colonial bodies and hygiene in the Antilles, ca. 1750-1794
- Doctors, regeneration and the revolutionary crucible, 1789-1804
- Uncertain territory and fragmented agendas
- 1804-1830
- From cholera to degeneration, ca. 1830-1848
- Conclusion : degeneration and regeneration after 1850.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [219]-247) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780754660989
- 0754660982
- OCLC:
- 85498513
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