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Infection of the Innocents : Wet Nurses, Infants, and Syphilis in France, 1780-1900.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: McGill-Queen's/AMS Healthcare Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society SeriesPublisher: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (229 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780773580916
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Infection of the InnocentsDDC classification:
  • 614.5/4720944
LOC classification:
  • RC201.6.F8 -- S54 2010eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Mercury and Syphilis: A Dysfunctional Relationship -- 2 The Making of a Modern Hospital in Eighteenth-Century Paris -- 3 The Infants of Vaugirard -- 4 The Wet Nurse as Technology -- 5 The Wet Nurse and the Law -- 6 The Doctor Exonerated -- APPENDICES -- 1 Case Sources -- 2 Decision of the Court of Dijon, 14 May 1868 -- 3 General Legislative and Statutory Terms -- Abbreviations Used in Notes -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W.
Summary: A study of the attempts to cure infants of syphilis and the wet nurses who were harmed.
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Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Mercury and Syphilis: A Dysfunctional Relationship -- 2 The Making of a Modern Hospital in Eighteenth-Century Paris -- 3 The Infants of Vaugirard -- 4 The Wet Nurse as Technology -- 5 The Wet Nurse and the Law -- 6 The Doctor Exonerated -- APPENDICES -- 1 Case Sources -- 2 Decision of the Court of Dijon, 14 May 1868 -- 3 General Legislative and Statutory Terms -- Abbreviations Used in Notes -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W.

A study of the attempts to cure infants of syphilis and the wet nurses who were harmed.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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