Morbid Undercurrents : Medical Subcultures in Postrevolutionary France /
"This book examines the proliferation of medical subcultures and genres following the "medical revolution" in France, tracing the intersections between writing and sociopolitical fragmentation. The analysis shows that biomedical science provided a central means for contemporaries to i...
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Ithaca [New York] :
Cornell University Press,
2021.
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Résumé: | "This book examines the proliferation of medical subcultures and genres following the "medical revolution" in France, tracing the intersections between writing and sociopolitical fragmentation. The analysis shows that biomedical science provided a central means for contemporaries to imagine self and society, becoming a malleable and subversive force in the age of revolution"-- |
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Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (336 pages). |
ISBN: | 9781501758348 |