Against the Spirit of System: The French Impulse in Nineteenth-Century American Medicine

by John Harley Warner

Book Overview

In this wide-ranging exploration of American medical culture, John Harley Warner offers the first in-depth study of a powerful intellectual and social influence: the radical empiricism of the Paris Clinical School. After the French Revolution, Paris emerged as the most vibrant center of Western medicine, bringing fundamental changes in understanding disease and attitudes toward the human body as an object of scientific knowledge. Between the 1810s...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691012032
• ISBN13: 9780691012032
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 510 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.8" x 10.0"