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Book SynopsisA physician and spokesman for the French Ideologues, Pierre-JeanGeorges Cabanis (1757-1808) stands at the crossroads of several influential developments in modern culture--Enlightenment optimism about human perfectibility, the clinical method in medicine, and the formation and adaptation of liberal social ideals in the French Revolution. This first
Table of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Preface, pg. ix*Introduction, pg. 1*CHAPTER I. The Late Enlightenment: Chain of Being, Chain of Truths, pg. 20*CHAPTER II. The Body as Mechanism, pg. 49*CHAPTER III. The Soul and the Vital Principle in Physiology, pg. 72*CHAPTER IV. Methodical Medicine in the Service of Humanity, pg. 94*CHAPTER V. The Natural and Artificial in Society, pg. 122*CHAPTER VI. The Perils of Revolution and the Rational Organization of Medical Experience, pg. 147*CHAPTER VII. Sensitivity: Source of 'Physique' and 'Moral, pg. 166*CHAPTER VIII. The Perfectibility of Temperament, pg. 207*CHAPTER IX. Approaches to Psychophysiology, pg. 244*CHAPTER X. In the Public Arena: Healing, Schooling, Governing, pg. 266*CHAPTER XI. The Metaphysical Twilight, pg. 298*Notes, pg. 315*Appendix A, pg. 371*Appendix B, pg. 373*Appendix C, pg. 375*Appendix D. "Cabanis" Manuscripts of the Museum National D'Histoire Naturelle, pg. 377*Appendix E. Condensed Outline of Hygiene of J.-N. Halle, pg. 381*Bibliography, pg. 383*Index, pg. 419
