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The Paris Clinical School of the nineteenth century has long been recognized as an important turning point in the development of modern scientific medicine. In this volume of essays, leading scholars take a fresh look at the meaning and significance of the Paris clinic for the history of medicine and reassess the analysis of the two most noted authors on the topic in the twentieth century, Erwin H. Ackernecht and Michel Foucault. The contributors offer new insights into the development and influence of Paris medicine and challenge many aspects of accepted interpretation. Their research opens the way for new areas of investigation in understanding major transitions in medicine
Price: $197.00
Pages: 410
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Clio Medica
Publication Date:
01 January 1999
ISBN: 9789042006911
Format: Hardcover
”… lucid overview of historical ‘constructions’ of Paris Medicine […] presents a remarkably coherent and unified examination of its subject.” in: Journal of Modern History, Vol. 73, No. 3, September 2001
Caroline Hannaway is a Historical consultant to the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland. She edited the Bulletin of the History of Medicine for eleven years and was Director of the Francis C. Wood Institute for the History of Medicine of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Her research interest in French medicine is longstanding and she has published a number of articles on eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century French medical institutions, health issues, and epidemics.
Ann La Berge is Associate Professor of Science and Technology Studies at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. She is the author of Mission and Method: The Early Nineteenth-Century French Public Health Movement (Cambridge University Press, 1992) and the co-editor (with Mordechai Feingold) of French Medical Culture in the Nineteenth Century (Rodopi, 1994). She is working on a study of nineteenth-century France focusing on medical statistics and medical microscopy.
Ann La Berge is Associate Professor of Science and Technology Studies at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. She is the author of Mission and Method: The Early Nineteenth-Century French Public Health Movement (Cambridge University Press, 1992) and the co-editor (with Mordechai Feingold) of French Medical Culture in the Nineteenth Century (Rodopi, 1994). She is working on a study of nineteenth-century France focusing on medical statistics and medical microscopy.