In Enlightenment and Pathology Anne Vila surveys the various understandings of sensibility that passed back and forth between different professional modes of discourse in eighteenth-century France.

In Enlightenment and Pathology Anne Vila surveys the various understandings of sensibility that passed back and forth between different professional modes of discourse in eighteenth-century France. The thrills of the nervous system, the delectations of taste, and the pangs of the heart mattered as much in the laboratory as in literature. Vila shows that the multiple junctures betwe In Enlightenment and Pathology Anne Vila surveys the various understandings of sensibility that passed back and forth between different professional modes of discourse in eighteenth-century France.

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Author Anne Vila shows that multiple junctures between the body and the mind promoted a steady commerce of speculation and discussion between science and the social salons of the time. Enlightenment and Pathology: Sensibility in the Literature and Medicine of Eighteenth-Century France. Johns Hopkins University Press.

Enlightenment and Pathology. Sensibility in the Literature and Medicine of Eighteenth-Century France

Enlightenment and Pathology. Sensibility in the Literature and Medicine of Eighteenth-Century France. In Enlightenment and Pathology Anne Vila surveys the various understandings of sensibility that passed back and forth between different professional modes of discourse in eighteenth-century France.

Enlightenment and Pathology: Sensibility in the Literature and Medicine of Eighteenth Century France. The histories of emotion address many fundamental themes of science and medicine. Baltimore -. Article. These include the ways the body and its workings have been historically observed and measured, the rise of the mind sciences, and the anthropological analyses by which "ways of knowing" are culturally situated. Yet such histories bring their own challenges, not least in how historians of science and medicine view the relationship between bodies, minds, and emotions.

Enlightenment and Pathology : Sensibility in the Literature and Medicine of Eighteenth-Century France.

Sensibility in the Literature and Medicine of Eighteenth-Century France In her evocative new book on the French Enlightenment.

Enlightenment and Pathology: Sensibility in the Literature and Medicine of Eighteenth-Century France. In her evocative new book on the French Enlightenment, the confluence of medicine and literature illuminates attempts by the best minds of the day to improve and compassionately control all human interactions, advance knowledge, and alter (one might also say subvert) the social environment.

Anne C. Vila, Enlightenment and Pathology: Sensibility in the Literature and Medicine of Eighteenth-Century France (Baltimore MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998). 10. Edward Barry, A Treatise on a consumption of the lungs (Dublin: George Grierson, 1726), 8–12Google Scholar.

Vila provides a compelling argument for the interrelationships between literature and medicine in France in the latter half of the eighteenth century. none can ignore it in future considerations of the subject. Vila is the Pickard-Bascom Professor of French at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of Enlightenment and Pathology: Sensibility in the Literature and Medicine of Eighteenth-Century France. H-France has organized a Forum discussion on Vila's work

Anne C. H-France has organized a Forum discussion on Vila's work.