Main entry:

Weiner, Dora B.

Title & Author:

The citizen-patient in revolutionary and imperial Paris / Dora B. Weiner.

Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993.

Description:

xvi, 444 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Series:

The Henry E. Sigerist series in the history of medicine

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-433) and index.
Introduction: The patient as citizen and Paris as model -- Part I. Tradition: The grim reality of the old regime -- 1. Enlightened innovation -- 2. The grim reality of the public hospital -- Part II. Confrontation: Reform and resistance -- 3. The rights and duties of citizen-patients and citizen-doctors -- 4. The caring professions -- Part III. Institutions: The citizen-patient and the hospital -- 5. The outpatient: The strategy of medical administrators -- 6. The inpatient: The claims of medical science -- 7. Clinical specialization: Children at risk -- Part IV. Outreach: The impaired citizen-patient -- 8. The schooling and health of the deaf and blind -- 9. Humane treatment of the mental patient -- Part V. Prospects: Hygiene and prevention -- 10. The citizen-patient and the environment -- Conclusion: The politics of health -- Appendixes: -- A. Legislative proposals -- B. Concordance of the Republican and Gregorian calendars -- C. Supplementary tables.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

In The Citizen-Patient in Revolutionary and Imperial Paris, Dora B. Weiner examines the experiences of the sick and handicapped indigent men, women, and children in Paris during the French Revolution and empire. Weiner argues that significant groups of Revolutionary physicians and reformers interpreted equality to include every citizen's right to health care. These reformers faced political, religious, and professional opposition, and daunting problems of funding. And they needed the participation of the poor as "citizen-patients," patients with both rights and duties, who acted as responsible partners in the pursuit and maintenance of public and personal health. Integrating the social history of medicine into the general history of the French Revolution, this book adds a new, medical facet to the meaning of equality while broadening the medical history of the Revolution by paying attention to the social history of the patient.

Resources:
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0801844835 (hc ; alk. paper)
9780801844836 (hc ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Paris
Medicine France Paris History 18th century.
Medicine France Paris History 19th century.
Delivery of Health Care history
Health Policy history
Public Health history
Médecine France Paris Histoire 18e siècle.
Médecine France Paris Histoire 19e siècle.
44.01 history of medicine.
Medicine.
Histoire du 19ème siècle France.
Histoire du 20ème siècle France.
Santé publique 20ème siècle France.
Santé publique 19ème siècle France.
Französische Revolution
Gesundheitswesen
Medizinische Versorgung
Soziale Ungleichheit
Geneeskunde.
Gezondheidszorg.
Medical care France Paris History.
Medicine France Paris History.
Santé publique France Paris (France) 1789-1815.
Médecine France Paris (France) 1789-1815.
Médecine France Paris (France) 19e siècle.
France Paris.
Public health History
Paris (France)
Medical Humanities.

Form/genre:

Historical Works.
History.

Added entries:

Henry E. Sigerist series in the history of medicine.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 89604
Call No.: ID:93-B2589
Status: Available