Professions and the French State, 1700-1900
1st Edition
Published on 11. November 2016
352 pages
978-1-5128-0193-4 (ISBN)
Description
This collection of essays represents the first focused attempt to treat the professions in France as a single large historical problem. It is at once a contribution to the history of the professions and to the social history of France. The essays point toward a common conclusion: in the French context, by striking contrast to standard Anglo-American assumptions, professional "e,autonomy,"e, power, and success virtually require "e,dependence"e, on the state.
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Reprint 2016
Language
English
Place of publication
Pennsylvania
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
3 illus.
3 illus.
ISBN-13
978-1-5128-0193-4 (9781512801934)
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Gerald L. Geison
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Gerald L. Geison is Associate Professor and Director of the Program in the History of Science at Princeton University.
Gerald L. Geison is Associate Professor and Director of the Program in the History of Science at Princeton University.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- PART ONE: Engineers, Scientists, and Academics
- 1. Bridges and Barriers: Narrowing Access and Changing Structure in the French Engineering Profession, 1800-1850
- 2. Science, the University, and the State in Nineteenth-Century France
- PART TWO: Surgeons, Physicians, and Psychiatrists
- 3. A "Monarchical Profession" in the Old Regime: Surgeons, Ordinary Practitioners, and Medical Professionalization in Eighteenth-Century France
- 4. "Moral Contagion": A Professional Ideology of Medicine and Psychiatry in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century France
- PART THREE: Medical Monopoly, Professional Power, and Political Cultures
- 5. The Politics of Professional Monopoly in Nineteenth-Century Medicine: The French Model and Its Rivals
- Index
- Notes on Contributors
