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In this wide-ranging exploration of American medical culture, John Harley Warner offers the first in-depth study of a powerful intellectual and social influence the radical empiricism of the Paris Clinical School. After the French Revolution, Paris emerged as the most vibrant center of Western medicine, bringing fundamental changes in understanding disease and attitudes toward the human body as an object of scientific knowledge. Between the 1810s and the 1860s, hundreds of Americans studied in Parisian hospitals and dissection rooms, and then applied their new knowledge to advance their careers at home and reform American medicine.

By reconstructing their experiences and interpretations, by comparing American with English depictions of French medicine, and by showing how American memories of Paris shaped the later reception of German ideals of scientific medicine, Warner reveals that the French impulse was a key ingredient in creating the modern medicine American doctors and patients live with today. Impressed by the opportunity to learn through direct hands-on physical examination and dissection, many American students in Paris began to decry the elaborate theoretical schemes they held responsible for the degraded state of American medicine. These reformers launched an empiricist crusade "against the spirit of system," which promised social, economic, and intellectual uplift for their profession. Using private diaries, family letters, and student notebooks, and exploring regionalism, gender, and class, Warner draws readers into the world of medical Americans while investigating tensions between the physician's identity as scientist and as healer.

Ebook Against the Spirit of System The French Impulse in NineteenthCentury American Medicine 9780801878213 Medicine Health Science Books

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Product details Paperback 480 pages Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press; 1 edition (November 12, 2003) Language English ISBN-10 0801878217

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Against the Spirit of System The French Impulse in NineteenthCentury American Medicine 9780801878213 Medicine Health Science Books Reviews

• The care givers of the past had a burden we can barely grasp. They didn't know how vast that burden was. They were as gifted mentally as we are and as determined to do the best they could. The many direct quotations from letters and diaries make us feel better than any other history I have read just what the mentality of the physicians of the past felt themselves. Every physician can profit from this study. Some day we'll be the subject of history.
• I am a retired physician, and when I read David McCullough's recent book "The Greater Journey", I became fascinated with medicine in Paris around 1830. I have now read a dozen books related to this topic (histories, biographies, diaries, contemporary medical books, etc.) Fortunately I saved Warner's "Against the Spirit of System" for last. This book has tied together everything that I had already read and has added even more. Warner is an extremely thoughtful and thorough historian. He writes very well. His use of original sources is masterful. He explains his approach as he goes along. This book is clearly the best book on the topic. It is also a wonderful example of historical method at its best.
• Glad to have finally found this book, and at a decent price. Stayed at 29 bucks for the longest time, so I just bought it.
• Needed this out-of-the-way book because it has a section on Joseph Shelton Watson, 1801 grad of William and Mary. He was the first Virginian to create and send aloft a hot-air balloon!!!!!