Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Abbreviations xi
6. Introduction: Morbid Undercurrents—Medicine and Culture after the Revolution 1
7. 1. Settings: The Cultural World of Medical Practice, ca. 1750–1800 21
8. 2. Medicine in the Boudoir: The Marquis de Sade and Medical Understanding after the Reign of Terror 43
9. 3. Writing Sexual Difference: The Natural History of Women and Gendered Visions, ca. 1800 68
10. 4. Seeing and Knowing: Readers and Physiognomic Science 95
11. 5. Sex and the Citizen: Reproductive Manuals and Fashionable Readers under the Napoleonic State 127
12. 6. Sculpting Ideal Bodies: Medicine, Aesthetics, and Desire in the Artist’s Studio 149
13. 7. The Mesmerist Renaissance: Medical Undercurrents and Testing the Limits of Scientific Authority 176
14. 8. Physiology as Literary Genre: Passions, Taste, and Social Agendas under the Restoration and July Monarchy 217
15. Epilogue: Medicine, Writing, and Subcultures after the Revolution 251
16. Notes 263
17. Index 309