TY  - BOOK
AU  - Geison,Gerald L.
TI  - Professions and the French State, 1700-1900
SN  - 9780812279122
AV  - Q127.F8 
U1  - 331.7/615/0944 19
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Philadelphia : 
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press, 
KW  - Professions
KW  - France
KW  - History
KW  - Science and state
KW  - HISTORY / Medieval
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Introduction --; 1. Bridges and Barriers: Narrowing Access and Changing Structure in the French Engineering Profession, 1800-1850 --; 2. Science, the University, and the State in Nineteenth-Century France --; 3. A “Monarchical Profession” in the Old Regime: Surgeons, Ordinary Practitioners, and Medical Professionalization in Eighteenth-Century France --; 4. “Moral Contagion”: A Professional Ideology of Medicine and Psychiatry in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century France --; 5. The Politics of Professional Monopoly in Nineteenth-Century Medicine: The French Model and Its Rivals --; Index --; Notes on Contributors; restricted access
N2  - This collection of essays represents the first focused attempt to treat the professions in France as a single large historical problem. It is at once a contribution to the history of the professions and to the social history of France. The essays point toward a common conclusion: in the French context, by striking contrast to standard Anglo-American assumptions, professional "autonomy," power, and success virtually require "dependence" on the state
UR  - https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512801934
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