French Medical Culture in the Nineteenth Century

Book excerpt: Preliminary Material --Acknowledgements /Ann La Berge and Mordechai Feingold --Notes on Contributors /Ann La Berge and Mordechai Feingold --Preface /Ann La Berge and Mordechai Feingold --Introduction /Ann La Berge and Mordechai Feingold --Academic Medicine and Medical Industrialism: The Regulation of Secret Remedies in Nineteenth-Century France /Matthew Ramsey --Consultation by Letter in Early Eighteenth-Century Paris: The Medical Practice of Etienne-François Geoffroy /Laurence Brockliss --Private Practice and Public Research: The Patients of R. T. H. Laennec /Jacalyn Duffin --The Development of Medical Specialization in Nineteenth-Century Paris /George Weisz --Doctors and Families in France, 1880-1930: The Cultural Reconstruction of Medicine /Martha L. Hildreth --The Uses of Male Hysteria: Medical and Literary Discourse in Nineteenth-Century France /Jan Goldstein --From Religious to Bio-Medical Anti-Semitism: The Career of Jules Soury /Toby Gelfand --Vicq d'Azyr, Anatomy and a Vision of Medicine /Caroline Hannaway --Medical Microscopy in Paris, 1830-1855 /Ann La Berge --Bacteriological Research and Medical Practice in and out of the Pastorian School /Anne Marie Moulin --La Visite: Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Paris Medical Clinics /Joy Harvey --Index /Ann La Berge and Mordechai Feingold.