Self-observational life in eighteenth-century Germany

Health and healing in eighteenth-century Germany

Contrary to what one might expect from the very general title, this book is a detailed, archivally-based study of a small, mostly rural state in northern Germany, the duchy of Braunschweig-Wolfenbuttel. A subtitle might perhaps have been in order here, to warn the unwary student expecting a general textbook covering the whole of Germany. Yet Mary Lindemann's substantial new work is anything but...

The Birth of Biopower in Eighteenth-Century Germany

In April 2009, Sir David Attenborough, the respected face and voice of British natural history programmes for more than fifty years, became the patron of a new charity, the Optimum Population Trust (OPT), an organisation campaigning to limit the world’s population. His reason for accepting the honour, he confessed to The Times, was that he was terribly worried about the dramatic increase of the...

Eighteenth-Century Europe

Chapter 6: Varieties of the Public Sphere To this point, we have encountered changes, as well as continuity, in European politics, economics, society, and thought. Each of these developments contributed to a transformation that some consider the most fundamental transformation of the century -the emergence, between the state sector and private economic sphere, of autonomous institutions of civi...

Eighteenth-Century Europe

Medicine in Eighteenth-Century Bristol

The President introduced his remarks by a short survey of the social and economic conditions in Bristol in the middle of the eighteenth century, with acknowledgments to Latimer's Annals of Bristol in the eighteenth century, Munro Smith's History of the Bristol Royal Infirmary, and other sources. He quoted from English Social History: " Good doctoring rather than better social conditions was the...