Morbid Undercurrents : Medical Subcultures in Postrevolutionary France.

Morbid Undercurrents -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Morbid Undercurrents-Medicine and Culture after the Revolution -- 1. Settings: The Cultural World of Medical Practice, ca. 1750-1800 -- 2. Medicine in the Boudoir: The Marquis de Sade and Medical Understanding after the Reign of Terror -- 3. Writing Sexual Difference: The Natural History of Women and Gendered Visions, ca. 1800 -- 4. Seeing and Knowing: Readers and Physiognomic Science -- 5. Sex and the Citizen: Reproductive Manuals and Fashionable Readers under the Napoleonic State -- 6. Sculpting Ideal Bodies: Medicine, Aesthetics, and Desire in the Artist's Studio -- 7. The Mesmerist Renaissance: Medical Undercurrents and Testing the Limits of Scientific Authority -- 8. Physiology as Literary Genre: Passions, Taste, and Social Agendas under the Restoration and July Monarchy -- Epilogue: Medicine, Writing, and Subcultures after the Revolution -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

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