The Great Nation in Decline: Sex, Modernity and Health Crises in Revolutionary France c.1750-1850 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781138265486)

This book studies how doctors responded to, and helped shape deep-seated fears about nervous degeneracy and population decline in France between 1750 and 1850. It uncovers a rich and far-ranging medical debate in which four generations of hygiene activists used biomedical science to transform the self, sexuality and community in order to regenerate a sick and decaying nation"a programme doctors labelled 'physical and moral hygiene'. The study argues that medicine acquired an unprecedented political, social and cultural position in French society, with doctors becoming the primary spokesmen for bourgeois values, and thus helped to define the new world that emerged from the post-revolutionary period.

Author: Sean M. Quinlan
ISBN-10: 1138265489
ISBN-13: 9781138265486
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 11/15/2016
Pages: 280
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.59d