Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : degenerations, regeneration and health panics in modern France
  • A medical diagnosis of social crisis, 1750-1770
  • Depopulation and institutional responses, ca. 1770-1789
  • Colonial bodies and hygiene in the Antilles, ca. 1750-1794
  • Doctors, regeneration and the revolutionary crucible, 1789-1804
  • Uncertain territory and fragmented agendas
  • 1804-1830
  • From cholera to degeneration, ca. 1830-1848
  • Conclusion : degeneration and regeneration after 1850.