The Medical Mandarins : The French Academy of Medicine in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

This wide-ranging and imaginative book examines the social and scientific role of the French Academy of Medicine from its creation in 1820 to the outbreak of the Second World War. It utilizes academic activities and sources to explore such major questions in the social and scientific history of medicine as the nature of therapeutic reasoning, the scientific specificity of French medicine, and the consequences of hierarchical centralization for the medical profession.