Inheriting Vice, Acquiring Virtue: Hereditary Disease and Moral Hygiene in Eighteenth-Century France

This essay examines the medical debates over hereditary disease and moral hygiene in France between 1748 and 1790. During this time, which was marked by two formal academic exchanges about pathological inheritance, doctors critically studied the existence of hereditary diseases—including syphilis, a...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Bulletin of the history of medicine 2006-12, Vol.80 (4), p.649-676
1. Verfasser:	QUINLAN, SEAN M.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Attitude of Health Personnel Attitude to Health Attitudes Beliefs Biology Children Chronic Disease Communicable Diseases - etiology Communicable Diseases - history Disease Enlightenment Epidemiology Epilepsy European history Families & family life France Genetic diseases Genetic Diseases, Inborn - history Genetic disorders Genetic inheritance Heredity History of medicine History of science and technology History, 18th Century Humans Hygiene Hygiene - history Hygiene hospitals Life sciences Medicine surgery pharmacy Morality Morals Patients Physicians Practitioner patient relationship Psychosis Public and private hygiene Pulmonary tuberculosis Sexually Transmitted Diseases - etiology Sexually Transmitted Diseases - history Society Sociology, Medical - history Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768) Tuberculosis
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