The Great Nation in Decline: Sex, Modernity and Health Crises in Revolutionary France C. 1750-1850 (The History of Medicine in Context)

by SeanM.Quinlan (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2007

  $156.94

  Studies how doctors responded to deep-seated fears about nervous degeneracy and population decline in France between 1750 and 1850. This book uncovers a 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.