Constructing Paris Medicine: (50 Clio Medica)

The Paris Clinical School of the nineteenth century has long been recognized as an important turning point in the development of modern scientific medicine. In this volume of essays, leading scholars take a fresh look at the meaning and significance of the Paris clinic for the history of medicine and reassess the analysis of the two most noted authors on the topic in the twentieth century, Erwin H. Ackernecht and Michel Foucault. The contributors offer new insights into the development and influence of Paris medicine and challenge many aspects of accepted interpretation. Their research opens the way for new areas of investigation in understanding major transitions in medicine

Table of Contents:
Notes on Contributors Preface 1. Paris Medicine: Perspectives Past and Present Ann LA BERGE and Caroline HANNAWAY 2. Before the Clinic: French Medical Teaching in the Eighteenth Century L.W.B. BROCKLISS 3. Was Anatomical and Tissue Pathology a Product of the Paris Clinical School or Not? Othmar KEEL 4. Pious Pathology: J.-L. Alibert's Iconography of Disease L.S. JACYNA 5. Corvisart and Broussais: Human Individuality and Medical Dominance W.R. ALBURY 6. Laennec and Broussais: The Sympathetic Duel Jacalyn DUFFIN 7. Dichotomy or Integration? Medical Microscopy and the Paris Clinical Tradition Ann LA BERGE 8. Faithful to its Old Traditions? Paris Clinical Medicine from the Second Empire to the Third Republic (1848-1872) Joy HARVEY 9. Paradigm Lost or Paradise Declining? American Physicians and the Dead End of the Paris Clinical School John Harley WARNER Bibliography Index

About the Author :
Caroline Hannaway is a Historical consultant to the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland. She edited the Bulletin of the History of Medicine for eleven years and was Director of the Francis C. Wood Institute for the History of Medicine of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Her research interest in French medicine is longstanding and she has published a number of articles on eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century French medical institutions, health issues, and epidemics.

Ann La Berge is Associate Professor of Science and Technology Studies at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. She is the author of Mission and Method: The Early Nineteenth-Century French Public Health Movement (Cambridge University Press, 1992) and the co-editor (with Mordechai Feingold) of French Medical Culture in the Nineteenth Century (Rodopi, 1994). She is working on a study of nineteenth-century France focusing on medical statistics and medical microscopy.

Review :
”… lucid overview of historical ‘constructions’ of Paris Medicine […] presents a remarkably coherent and unified examination of its subject.” in: Journal of Modern History, Vol. 73, No. 3, September 2001