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Professions and the French State, 1700-1900
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- Summary
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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 profession...
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 "autonomy," power, and success virtually require "dependence" on the state.
Details
- Creator
- Gerald L. Geison
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Reprint 2016
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
- ©1984
- Series
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (x, 319 p. ) ill.
- ISBNs
- 1512801933, 9780812279122, 0585113610, 0812279123, 9780585113616, 9781512801934
- OCLC
- ocn979687505, on1121122527
- "Published under the auspices of the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University"--Half t.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographies and index.
- English
- Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 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 -- 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 -- 5. The Politics of Professional Monopoly in Nineteenth-Century Medicine: The French Model and Its Rivals -- Index -- Notes on Contributors