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Dwells on the French defeat of 1870 and the socialist uprising of the Commune of Paris. By looking at the history of the body and medicine, this book considers how the French people mobilised for the war effort and how their ultimate defeat had cultural and social consequences which led to the fin-de-siecle spirit.

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Chapter 1:Memories of wars: 1870-1871
Chapter 2: L'annee terrible: The war, the revolution and the Commune of Paris.
Chapter 3: Medicine, war and the revolution in Paris
Chapter 4: The 'Giant Hospital': military medicine in besieged Paris.
Chapter 5: The politics of care and order.
Chapter 6: Revolutionary society and medicine
Chapter 7:The dynamics of humanitarianism and the making of the Red Cross
Chapter 8: The severed limbs of the nation
Chapter 9: Seeds of defeat: alcohol and syphillis
Chapter 10: Conclusion. War stories.

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/04/2010
      ISBN13: 9780719081262, 978-0719081262
      ISBN10: 719081262

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Dwells on the French defeat of 1870 and the socialist uprising of the Commune of Paris. By looking at the history of the body and medicine, this book considers how the French people mobilised for the war effort and how their ultimate defeat had cultural and social consequences which led to the fin-de-siecle spirit.

      Table of Contents

      Chapter 1:Memories of wars: 1870-1871
      Chapter 2: L'annee terrible: The war, the revolution and the Commune of Paris.
      Chapter 3: Medicine, war and the revolution in Paris
      Chapter 4: The 'Giant Hospital': military medicine in besieged Paris.
      Chapter 5: The politics of care and order.
      Chapter 6: Revolutionary society and medicine
      Chapter 7:The dynamics of humanitarianism and the making of the Red Cross
      Chapter 8: The severed limbs of the nation
      Chapter 9: Seeds of defeat: alcohol and syphillis
      Chapter 10: Conclusion. War stories.

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