Mercier's Clinic: Public Health Utopianism in L'An 2440, rêve s'il en fut jamais.
The eighteenth-century medical Enlightenment in France saw fierce conflicts between inoculistes and anti-inoculistes, attacks from philosophes and surgeons on the privileges and dogmas of elite academic doctors, and attempts by reformers to improve medicine, hospitals, and sanitation. In this articl...
| Publicado en: | Eighteenth Century Fiction Vol. 35; no. 4; pp. 463 - 485 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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University of Toronto Press
Oct2023
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