The Medical Mandarins
The French Academy of Medicine in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 4 May 1995
- ISBN 9780195090376
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages328 pages
- Size 163x242x23 mm
- Weight 721 g
- Language English
- Illustrations black and white photographs, line figures and tables 0
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Short description:
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. It 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 of hierarchical centralization for the medical profession.
MoreLong description:
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.
For the serious student this book will be a mine of information, often presented quantitatively. As a study of the Academy of Medicine, it will be the standard work for a long time to come.
Table of Contents:
Part I: The Academic Institution
Creating the French Academy of Medicine
The Academy of Medicine and its Structures
Academic Functions and Genres: Communication, evaluation and debate
Representation and memory in the Academy
Part II: Academic Perspectives on Clinical Science
Water Cures and Science: The Academy of Medicine and mineral waters
Academic debate and therapeutic reasoning in the mid-nineteenth century
The posthumous Laennec: Creating a modern medical hero
Part III: Academic Perspectives on the Parisian Medical Elite
The Self-Made Mandarin: The Eulogies of Étienne Pariset, 1823-1847
Elite medical careers in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
The medical elite in French society.
