The great nation in decline : sex, modernity, and health crises in revolutionary France c.1750-1850 / Sean M. Quinlan.

Aldershot : Ashgate, [2007], ©2007.

265 pages ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

A medical diagnosis of social crisis, 1750-1770 -- Mapping social disease: 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 -- Degeneration and regeneration after 1850.