Physical and moral regeneration after the Terror: Medical culture, sensibility and family politics in France, 1794-1804

Social History

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 139-164

  Quinlan, Sean M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

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