Morbid Appearances
The Anatomy of Pathology in the Early Nineteenth Century

A detailed account of the rise of pathological anatomy in France and England.

Russell Charles Maulitz (Author)

9780521524537, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 18 July 2002

288 pages
22.8 x 15.4 x 1.7 cm, 0.439 kg

When we consider how the scientific revolution came to medicine, we often think of the rise of the great laboratory disciplines of the nineteenth century. Often overlooked in these accounts, however, is the role of clinical medicine and its important early branch, pathology. Morbid Appearances traces the emergence in France and England of this important medical tradition. Dr. Maulitz shows how the pathology of tissues came to occupy a central position in the teaching and research of French medical luminaries such as Bichat, Bayle, and Laennec, and he describes how the new pathology helped shore up the fortunes of the Paris medical faculty and the medicine of the 'Paris Hospital'. The author also details the efforts of Thomas Hodgkin, Robert Carswell, and others to import the new science of pathology to Great Britain - and he shows how their efforts to assign a place for pathological anatomy in their own medical culture met with rather mixed success.

Preface
Introduction
Part I. Paris: 1. Genesis of a tradition
2. Pathology and the Paris faculty
3. Pathology in the middle
4. The center holds
Part II. Channel Crossing: 5. The context of English pathology, 1800–1830
6. Channel crossing
Part III. London: 7. After Waterloo: medical journalism and the surgeon-apothecaries
8. Pathology and the specialist: The London Academy of Minute Anatomy
9. Propagation
Conclusion
Appendix
Notes
Selected bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: History of medicine [MBX]