Medicine and society in France selections from the Annales, economies, sociétés, civilisations, volume 6 /
This volume takes the approach that medicine is a social phenomenon with a biological basis and an intellectual content. While diseases, societies, and ideas can change independently of one another or concurrently, the conjuncture of the three is at the heart of medical practice. The essays included...
| Other Authors: | Forster, Robert, 1926-2020., Ranum, Orest A., Forster, Elborg, 1931-, Ranum, Patricia M., |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English French |
| Published: |
Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
1980.
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| Physical Description: |
ix, 176 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series: |
Selections from the Annales, économies, sociétés, civilisations ;
v. 5. |
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| Summary: |
This volume takes the approach that medicine is a social phenomenon with a biological basis and an intellectual content. While diseases, societies, and ideas can change independently of one another or concurrently, the conjuncture of the three is at the heart of medical practice. The essays included in this book explore the relationships between medicine and the society and time in which it was practiced. |
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| Item Description: |
Includes bibliographical references. Art of healing : learned medicine and popular medicine in the France of 1790 / Jean-Pierre Goubert -- Women, religion and medicine : the nuns who care in France in the nineteenth century / Jacques Léonard -- City and country in eighteenth-century medical discussions about early childhood / Marie-France Morel -- Roche, D. Talent, reason, and sacrifice. -- Work-related diseases of artisans in eighteenth-century France / Arlette Farge -- Structure of the hospital system in France in the ancien régime / Muriel Joerger -- Childbirth in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France / Mirielle Laget. This volume takes the approach that medicine is a social phenomenon with a biological basis and an intellectual content. While diseases, societies, and ideas can change independently of one another or concurrently, the conjuncture of the three is at the heart of medical practice. The essays included in this book explore the relationships between medicine and the society and time in which it was practiced. |
| Physical Description: |
ix, 176 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: |
0801823056 9780801823053 0801823064 9780801823060 |