Medicine as a Tool of Empire: How Medical Developments Advanced European Imperialism in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

The medical mandarins: the French Academy of Medicine in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

The title of this carefully researched book may conjure up images of an intellectual corporation, richly endowed and ceremoniously inscribed in the ruling elite-a picture typified by the physician Rene Laennec, who became a great figurehead for the Academy. A classical scholar and royal favourite, Laennec visited his patient, Cardinal Fesch-Napoleon's uncle, in "costume de cour" and sword. A me...

“An Imperialism of the Imagination”: Muslim Characters and Western Authors in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

This paper specifically discusses the cultural attitudes that made writing fully realized Muslim characters problematic for Western authors during the 19th and 20th centuries and also how, through their writing, certain authors perpetuated these attitudes. The discussed authors and works include William Beckford's Vathek, Lord Byron's poem “The Giaour,” multiple short stories from the periodica...

Dental caries in a Portuguese identified skeletal sample from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

Organic memory: history and the body in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

gloss over and disguise the very real sense of social effort required in the transition from one theory to another. On another level, much of the information in this volume also remains hidden. The book's organization, which combines Oxford notation with conventional footnotes and individual bibliographies, disrupts the natural flow of reading. The footnotes and bibliographies, which demonstrat...

Challenges to societal attitudes toward homosexuality in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

ONE OF THE PROBLEMS OF CONCERN TO BOTH HISTORIANS AND SOCIOLOgists of science is the need to explain how change comes about. What factors are involved in rejecting the erroneous assumptions of the past in favor of new hypotheses more in accord with the evidence? One of the more widely accepted current explanations holds that erroneous theories usually are not rejected at the first indication of...