The Citizen-Patient in Revolutionary and Imperial Paris (The Henry E. Sigerist Series in the History of Medicine) - Hardcover

Weiner PhD, Dr. Dora B.

9780801844836: The Citizen-Patient in Revolutionary and Imperial Paris (The Henry E. Sigerist Series in the History of Medicine)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0801844835 ISBN 13: 9780801844836

Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993

In The Citizen-Patient in Revolutionary and Imperial Paris, Dora B. Weiner examines the experiences of the sick and handicapped indigent men, women, and children in Paris during the French Revolution and Empire. Weiner argues that significant groups of Revolutionary physicians and reformers interpreted equality to include every citizen's right to health care. These reformers faced political, religious, and professional opposition, and daunting problems of funding. And they needed the participation of the poor as "citizen-patients," patients with both rights and duties, who acted as responsible partners in the pursuit and maintenance of public and personal health.

Weiner surveys the 20,000 patients institutionalized in twenty Paris hospitals and hospices and explains how the Revolution changed the status and work of nurses, pharmacists, midwives, and students, as well as doctors. Clinical teaching, professional specialization, and approaches to public health were all affected. Weiner emphasizes health care for children, deaf and blind people, and mentally ill patients and underscores the role of women as administrators and dispensers of hospital care.

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From the Publisher:

"This is history of the highest quality; it shows the hard work of years of archival research as well as familiarity with the interpretive literature in a variety of intersecting fields."—Journal of Social History

About the Author:

Dora B. Weiner is professor of the medical humanities and History at UCLA. Her books include Raspail: Scientist and Reformer, The Clinical Training of Doctors: An Essay of 1793, Philippe Pinel (1745-1862) and an English edition of Jacques Tenon's Memoirs of Paris Hospitals.

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