Defeated Flesh: Medicine, Welfare, and Warfare in the Making of Modern FranceDefeated Flesh is a compelling study of the French defeat of 1870 and the socialist uprising of the Commune of Paris, a crucial turning point in the making of modern France. By examining the history of the body and medicine, Taithe shows how the French mobilized for the war effort and how their ultimate defeat had devastating cultural and social consequences that led to the fin de si_cle spirit. Reinterpreting the siege of Paris, the physical suffering caused by the war, and rationing in an exceptionally harsh period of French history, the author challenges current debates on citizenship, centralism, and modern warfare. TaitheOs original approach and the wide range of previously untouched source material he draws upon cast a new light on the social aspirations behind the worldOs first socialist uprising and on the fears of national decline so common in Western Europe before 1914. This intriguing and highly original study will be of interest to all readers of French history and of European and French culture, as well as to specialists on the history of war and medicine. |
Contents
Memories of war 187071 | 1 |
Meanings attributed to the war | 4 |
Defeated flesh | 18 |
The FrancoPrussian war revolution and Commune an overview | 25 |
The origin debates | 26 |
Immediate causes of the war | 29 |
The war and defeat | 30 |
Politics and the Commune | 40 |
Towards secular medicine | 132 |
Doctors against the Commune | 141 |
The agony of the Commune | 146 |
Conclusion | 150 |
The dynamics of humanitarianism and the making of the Red Cross | 155 |
Humanitarianism | 157 |
Official movements | 164 |
Voluntary movements | 170 |
Conclusion | 43 |
The politics of social practice medicine war and revolution in Paris | 46 |
French medicine in 1870 | 48 |
Health in Paris in 1870 | 53 |
Revolution and medicine | 61 |
Militarisation and war effort Paris the giant hospital | 71 |
Military medicine | 75 |
The giant hospital | 83 |
Discipline and space | 89 |
Postwar | 96 |
The politics of care and order | 99 |
To free Paris | 101 |
To feed Paris | 106 |
The politics of food | 114 |
The politics of care | 121 |
Revolutionary society and medicine | 130 |
Ideology | 174 |
Conclusion | 177 |
Defeat embodied the severed limbs of the nation | 180 |
Bodyloss | 181 |
Outliving war | 193 |
Conclusion | 206 |
Seeds of defeat alcohol and syphilis | 208 |
From the cabaret to the grave | 210 |
Syphilis | 217 |
Shifting regulation | 222 |
Symbolic regulation and prohibition | 227 |
Conclusion | 229 |
Conclusion war stories | 233 |
Bibliography | 241 |
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Other editions - View all
Defeated Flesh: Welfare, Warfare and the Making of Modern France Bertrand Taithe Limited preview - 1999 |
Defeated Flesh: Welfare, Warfare and the Making of Modern France Bertrand Taithe No preview available - 2010 |
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