Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Preface IX
4. Introduction 1
5. PART ONE: Engineers, Scientists, and Academics
6. 1. Bridges and Barriers: Narrowing Access and Changing Structure in the French Engineering Profession, 1800-1850 15
7. 2. Science, the University, and the State in Nineteenth-Century France 66
8. PART TWO: Surgeons, Physicians, and Psychiatrists
9. 3. A “Monarchical Profession” in the Old Regime: Surgeons, Ordinary Practitioners, and Medical Professionalization in Eighteenth-Century France 149
10. 4. “Moral Contagion”: A Professional Ideology of Medicine and Psychiatry in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century France 181
11. PART THREE: Medical Monopoly, Professional Power, and Political Cultures
12. 5. The Politics of Professional Monopoly in Nineteenth-Century Medicine: The French Model and Its Rivals 225
13. Index 307
14. Notes on Contributors 318