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Women and Medicine in the French Enlightenment: The Debate over Maladies des Femmes.

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The debate over late births (1764-1806) drawing the lines of the debate - opponents, proponents, mediators the effect of the debate on medical jurisprudence defining the 18th-century physician - scientists, Philosophe, man of society? the problem of convulsions the debate over the convulsionaries of St. Medard (1727-1765) the debate over mesmerism (1778-1787) ignorant and superstitious or overly refined? - the convulsive female in physicians' critiques of culture the legacy of the enlightenment.

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