Society and Manners in Early Nineteenth-Century Ulster

Pseudo-science and society in nineteenth-century America

Water, as portrayed in Goubert's study, strikes me as a quintessential Latourian non-human actor, which was "conquered" and transformed by architects, town planners, engineers, hygienists, physicians, and chemists, but which also made its own "conquest", dramatically changing the scientific and cultural landscape of nineteenthand twentieth-century France. Thus, Goubert argues that a cultural an...

Patterns of philanthropy: charity and society in nineteenth-century Bristol

seems rather too neat. And in her eagerness to identify the mixed motives of the medics who voluntarily proffered their services and the middling sort benefactors whose subscriptions kept the institution financially afloat, she may underemphasize the role of pure human compassion. Certainly a genuine desire to assist the sick poor was not incompatible with "a shrewd calculation" (p. 115) of the...

Medical knowledge and statistical methods in early nineteenth-century France.

INTRODUCTION In eighteenth-century France the outstanding achievements in the physical and natural sciences contrasted sharply with the limited advances of the medical arts. A growing confidence in the ability to manipulate the material world only increased frustration at the unsteady progress in medicine; the complex equilibrium between the human organism and the milieu eluded precise scrutiny...

Ulster Neuro-Psychiatric Society

The Ulster Medical Society

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