The Medical Mandarins - George Weisz

The Medical Mandarins

The French Academy of Medicine in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
328 Seiten
1995
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-509037-6 (ISBN)
98,50 inkl. MwSt
This wide-ranging and imaginative book examines the social and scientific role of the French Academy of Medicine from its creation in 1820 to the outbreak of the Second World War. Weisz traces the Academy's history, and argues that it was gradually transformed from a low-status public institution that was central to French medical science in the nineteenth century, to an 'establishment' institution largely irrelevant to medical science, but playing a key role in public health policy.

The second part of the book looks at broader issues of medical history, and shows how a scientific study of mineral waters led to the formation of disciplines within medical science. The final part examines the place and role of the medical elite - the Medical Mandarins - within French bourgeoisie.

This book utilizes academic activities and sources to explore such major questions in the social and scientific history of medicine as the nature of therapeutic reasoning, the scientific specificity of French medicine, and the consequences for the medical profession of hierarchical centralization.

PART I: The Academic Institution
1: Creating the French Academy of Medicine
2: The Academy of Medicine and Its Structures
3: Academic Functions and Genres: Communication, Evaluation and Debate
4: Academic Function and Genres: Commissions and Prizes
5: Representation and Memory in the Academy
PART II: Academic Perspectives on Clinical Science
6: Water Cures and Science: The Academy of Medicine and Mineral Waters
7: Academic Debate and Therapeutic Reasoning in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
8: The Posthumous Laenned: Creating a Modern Medical Hero
PART III: Academic Perspectives on the Parisian Medical Elite
9: The Self-Made Mandarin: The Eulogies of Etienne Pariset, 1823-1847
10: Elite Medical Careers in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
11: The Medical Elite in French Society

Erscheint lt. Verlag 4.5.1995
Zusatzinfo black and white photographs, line figures and tables
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 242 x 163 mm
Gewicht 721 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Technikgeschichte
Mathematik / Informatik Mathematik Geschichte der Mathematik
Medizin / Pharmazie Gesundheitswesen
Studium Querschnittsbereiche Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
Naturwissenschaften
ISBN-10 0-19-509037-3 / 0195090373
ISBN-13 978-0-19-509037-6 / 9780195090376
Zustand Neuware
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