Human Remains: Medicine, Death, and Desire in Nineteenth-Century Paris (Forms of Living)

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The living and the dead cohabited Paris until the late eighteenth century, when, in the name of public health, measures were taken to drive the latter from the city. Cemeteries were removed from urban space, and corpses started to be viewed as terrifyingly noxious substances.

The dead had fallen victim to a sustained reflection on the notions of life and death that emerged from the two new medical fields of biology and hygiene. In large part, the Paris of the nineteenth century―the Paris of modernity―arose, both theoretically and physically, out of this concern over the relations between the animate and the inanimate.

As the dead became a source of pervasive and intense anxiousness, they also became an object of fascination that at once exceeded and guided the medical imagination attempting to control them. Human Remains examines that exuberant anxiety to discover the irrational, indeed erotic, forces motivating the medicalization of death.

Working across a broad range of disciplines, including history, literature, the visual arts, philosophy, and psychoanalysis, the book seeks to understand the meaning of the dead and their role in creating one of the most important cities of the contemporary world.

 

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Human Remains: Medicine, Death, and Desire in Nineteenth-Century Paris by ‘Jonathan Strauss’

  • Focus: Examines the interplay of medicine, death, and societal attitudes toward human remains in 19th-century Paris.
  • Author: Written by Jonathan Strauss, a scholar in the history of medicine and cultural studies.
  • Cultural exploration: Investigates how medical practices and beliefs about death influenced contemporary notions of desire and the body.
  • Historical context: Provides insights into the social and political landscape of Paris during this transformative period.
  • Interdisciplinary approach: Blends history, medicine, and cultural theory to explore the complexities of life and death.
  • Forms of Living series: Part of a series that engages with the philosophical and ethical dimensions of human existence.

Human Remains: Medicine, Death, and Desire in Nineteenth-Century Paris

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