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Ce traité médical qui n’en est pas un : récits de lutte disciplinaire sous le régime Orfila

Duffy, Larry (2020) Ce traité médical qui n’en est pas un : récits de lutte disciplinaire sous le régime Orfila. In: Tortonese, Paolo and D'Andrea, Patrizia, eds. Le Cas médical entre norme et exception. Études dix-neuviémistes . Garnier, Paris, France, pp. 69-84. ISBN 978-2-406-10075-1. (doi:10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-10077-5) (KAR id:74026)

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Abstract

Le traité Considérations médico-légales sur l’avortement (1844) de Charles-Nicolas Halmagrand est en réalité le récit autobiographique et polémique du conflit entre son auteur et le doyen Mathieu Orfila, qui préside un système de règlement médical sous la monarchie de Juillet. Ce chapitre, constatant des similarités rhétoriques entre certains propos de ce récit et de ceux du pharmacien flaubertien Homais, les situe dans un contexte de luttes autour du règlement de la médecine et de la pharmacie.

Charles-Nicolas Halmagrand’s 1844 treatise Considérations médico-légales sur l’avortement is an autobiographical polemic recounting its author’s conflict with Mathieu Orfila, Dean of medicine in Paris, who oversees a system of medical regulation during the July Monarchy. This chapter, identifying rhetorical similarities between certain pronouncements in this narrative and those of Flaubert’s pharmacist Homais, situates them in a context of struggle around the regulation of medicine and pharmacy.

Item Type: Book section
DOI/Identification number: 10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-10077-5
Uncontrolled keywords: Disciplinary conflicts in the health professions in 1840s France
Subjects: D History General and Old World > DC France
P Language and Literature
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Arts and Humanities > School of Culture and Languages
Depositing User: Larry Duffy
Date Deposited: 22 May 2019 13:35 UTC
Last Modified: 19 Feb 2021 13:45 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/74026 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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