Sean M Quinlan
Biographic Data
| ID | 1116459 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sean M Quinlan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sean M |
| FAMILY NAME | Quinlan |
| SIGNATURE | QUINLAN S M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Idaho |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Alison M. Downham Moore, The French Invention of Menopause and the Medicalisation of Women’s Ageing: A History
The Science of Proof: Forensic Medicine in Modern France
The Cambridge World History of Sexualities
Volume I offers historiographical surveys and general overviews of central topics in the history of world sexualities. Split across twenty-two chapters, this volume places the history of sexuality in dialogue with anthropology, women's history, LGBTQ+ history, queer theory, and public history, as well as examining the impact Freud and Foucault have had on the history of sexuality. The volume continues by providing overviews on the sexual body, fa…
The Time of Enlightenment: Constructing the Future in France, 1750 to Year One
Michael A. Osborne. The Emergence of Tropical Medicine in France
Over the past two decades, scholars have witnessed a proliferation of studies that explore the relation between science and imperialism in the modern period. Influenced by the so-called cultural turn, this scholarship has drawn critical insight and rigor from postcolonial and subaltern theoretical approaches. Historians have shown how the Western powers used science and technology to expand their territories and subjugate indigenous peoples, whil…
Demonizing the Sixties: Possession Stories and the Crisis of Religious and Medical Authority in Post‐Sixties American Popular Culture
Shots to the mind: Violence, the brain and biomedicine in popular novels and film in post-1960s America
This article traces an unlikely and gruesome subject: how and why images of people getting shot in the head have become so pervasive in contemporary US fiction and film. Adopting a historical-genealogical approach, the analysis explores how the so-called headshot image emerged from two socio-cultural trends. First, the headshot referenced key historical traumas from the 1960s that involved the deaths of Ernest Hemingway, J. F. Kennedy and Nguyễn …
Heredity, reproduction, and perfectibility in revolutionary and Napoleonic France, 1789–1815
Napoleon and the Woman Question: Discourses of the Other Sex in French Education, Medicine, and Medical Law, 1799–1815 (review)
Reviewed by: Napoleon and the Woman Question: Discourses of the Other Sex in French Education, Medicine, and Medical Law, 1799–1815 Sean M. Quinlan June K. Burton. Napoleon and the Woman Question: Discourses of the Other Sex in French Education, Medicine, and Medical Law, 1799–1815. Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2007. 288 pp. Ill. $40.00 (ISBN-10: 0-89672-559-6, ISBN-13: 978-0-89672-559-1). In this excellent book, June K. Burton examines …
Monstrous Births and Medical Networks: Debates over Forensic Evidence, Generation Theory, and Obstetrical Authority in France, ca. 1780-1815
In France between 1780 and 1815, doctors opened a broad correspondence with medical faculties and public officials about foetal anomalies ("monstrosities"). Institutional and legal reforms forced doctors to encounter monstrous births with greater frequency, and they responded by developing new ideas about heredity and embryology to explain malformations to public officials. Though doctors achieved consensus on pathogenesis, they struggled to appl…
Vitalizing Nature in the Enlightenment (review)
Reviewed by: Vitalizing Nature in the Enlightenment Sean M. Quinlan Peter Hanns Reill. Vitalizing Nature in the Enlightenment. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2005. x + 388 pp. $55.00 (0-520-24135-5). Over the last two decades, an important body of historiography has grown on the idea of vitalism in the biomedical sciences—that is, the belief that a special force animates living matter and directs vital functions and org…
Anatomie des passions (review)
Reviewed by: Anatomie des passions Sean M. Quinlan François Delaporte . Anatomie des passions. Science, histoire et société. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2003. 220 pp. Ill. E20.00 (paperbound, 2-13-053225-X). Over the past two decades, François Delaporte's work has generated lively debate. In books like Le second règne de nature (1979), Disease and Civilization (1986), and Histoire de la fièvre jaune (1989), Delaporte has approached s…
Inheriting Vice, Acquiring Virtue: Hereditary Disease and Moral Hygiene in the Medicine of the French Enlightenment
This essay examines the medical debates over hereditary disease and moral hygiene in France between 1748 and 1790. During this time, which was marked by two formal academic exchanges about pathological inheritance, doctors critically studied the existence of hereditary diseases—including syphilis, arthritis, phthisis, scrofula, rickets, gout, stones, epilepsy, and insanity—and the problems that heredity might pose for curing and preventing these …
Colonial Bodies, Hygiene, and Abolitionist Politics in Eighteenth-Century France
Physical and moral regeneration after the Terror: Medical culture, sensibility and family politics in France, 1794–1804
Physical and moral regeneration was one of the great aspirations of the French Revolution. Revolutionaries fashioned new cultural practices to emphasize collective rebirth and the individual citizen’s own break with a degenerate past. Often associated with radical politics, this article emphasizes regeneration’s conservative manifestations after the Reign of Terror and the Thermidorean reaction of 1794. Against the backdrop of revolutionary trans…
Colonial encounters. Colonial bodies, hygiene and abolitionist politics in eighteenth-century France
Journal Article Colonial encounters. Colonial bodies, hygiene and abolitionist politics in eighteenth-century France Get access S Quinlan S Quinlan Indiana University, Bloomington, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 42, Issue 1, AUTUMN 1996, Pages 107–126, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/1996.42.107 Published: 01 January 1996
Apparent Death in Eighteenth-Century France and England
Journal Article Apparent Death in Eighteenth-Century France and England Get access Sean M. Quinlan Sean M. Quinlan * The author is pursuing doctoral studies at the Department of History, Indiana University, Ballantine Hall 742, Bloomington, IN, 47405. He thanks William B. Cohen, John M. Efron, Rachel G. Fuchs, Sandra G. Reineke, James C. Riley, Jennipher A. Rosecrans, Stephen Toth and an anonymous reader for their comments, criticisms and assista…
Christ, Faith and History
Monstrous Births and Medical Networks: Debates over Forensic Evidence, Generation Theory, and Obstetrical Authority in France, ca. 1780-1815
In France between 1780 and 1815, doctors opened a broad correspondence with medical faculties and public officials about foetal anomalies ("monstrosities"). Institutional and legal reforms forced doctors to encounter monstrous births with greater frequency, and they responded by developing new ideas about heredity and embryology to explain malformations to public officials. Though doctors achieved consensus on pathogenesis, they struggled to appl…
Colonial encounters. Colonial bodies, hygiene and abolitionist politics in eighteenth-century France
Journal Article Colonial encounters. Colonial bodies, hygiene and abolitionist politics in eighteenth-century France Get access S Quinlan S Quinlan Indiana University, Bloomington, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 42, Issue 1, AUTUMN 1996, Pages 107–126, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/1996.42.107 Published: 01 January 1996
Shots to the mind: Violence, the brain and biomedicine in popular novels and film in post-1960s America
This article traces an unlikely and gruesome subject: how and why images of people getting shot in the head have become so pervasive in contemporary US fiction and film. Adopting a historical-genealogical approach, the analysis explores how the so-called headshot image emerged from two socio-cultural trends. First, the headshot referenced key historical traumas from the 1960s that involved the deaths of Ernest Hemingway, J. F. Kennedy and Nguyễn …
Physical and moral regeneration after the Terror: Medical culture, sensibility and family politics in France, 1794–1804
Physical and moral regeneration was one of the great aspirations of the French Revolution. Revolutionaries fashioned new cultural practices to emphasize collective rebirth and the individual citizen’s own break with a degenerate past. Often associated with radical politics, this article emphasizes regeneration’s conservative manifestations after the Reign of Terror and the Thermidorean reaction of 1794. Against the backdrop of revolutionary trans…
Christ, Faith and History
Apparent Death in Eighteenth-Century France and England
Journal Article Apparent Death in Eighteenth-Century France and England Get access Sean M. Quinlan Sean M. Quinlan * The author is pursuing doctoral studies at the Department of History, Indiana University, Ballantine Hall 742, Bloomington, IN, 47405. He thanks William B. Cohen, John M. Efron, Rachel G. Fuchs, Sandra G. Reineke, James C. Riley, Jennipher A. Rosecrans, Stephen Toth and an anonymous reader for their comments, criticisms and assista…
Colonial encounters. Colonial bodies, hygiene and abolitionist politics in eighteenth-century France
Journal Article Colonial encounters. Colonial bodies, hygiene and abolitionist politics in eighteenth-century France Get access S Quinlan S Quinlan Indiana University, Bloomington, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 42, Issue 1, AUTUMN 1996, Pages 107–126, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/1996.42.107 Published: 01 January 1996
Physical and moral regeneration after the Terror: Medical culture, sensibility and family politics in France, 1794–1804
Physical and moral regeneration was one of the great aspirations of the French Revolution. Revolutionaries fashioned new cultural practices to emphasize collective rebirth and the individual citizen’s own break with a degenerate past. Often associated with radical politics, this article emphasizes regeneration’s conservative manifestations after the Reign of Terror and the Thermidorean reaction of 1794. Against the backdrop of revolutionary trans…
Colonial Bodies, Hygiene, and Abolitionist Politics in Eighteenth-Century France
Anatomie des passions (review)
Reviewed by: Anatomie des passions Sean M. Quinlan François Delaporte . Anatomie des passions. Science, histoire et société. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2003. 220 pp. Ill. E20.00 (paperbound, 2-13-053225-X). Over the past two decades, François Delaporte's work has generated lively debate. In books like Le second règne de nature (1979), Disease and Civilization (1986), and Histoire de la fièvre jaune (1989), Delaporte has approached s…
Inheriting Vice, Acquiring Virtue: Hereditary Disease and Moral Hygiene in the Medicine of the French Enlightenment
This essay examines the medical debates over hereditary disease and moral hygiene in France between 1748 and 1790. During this time, which was marked by two formal academic exchanges about pathological inheritance, doctors critically studied the existence of hereditary diseases—including syphilis, arthritis, phthisis, scrofula, rickets, gout, stones, epilepsy, and insanity—and the problems that heredity might pose for curing and preventing these …
Vitalizing Nature in the Enlightenment (review)
Reviewed by: Vitalizing Nature in the Enlightenment Sean M. Quinlan Peter Hanns Reill. Vitalizing Nature in the Enlightenment. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2005. x + 388 pp. $55.00 (0-520-24135-5). Over the last two decades, an important body of historiography has grown on the idea of vitalism in the biomedical sciences—that is, the belief that a special force animates living matter and directs vital functions and org…
Napoleon and the Woman Question: Discourses of the Other Sex in French Education, Medicine, and Medical Law, 1799–1815 (review)
Reviewed by: Napoleon and the Woman Question: Discourses of the Other Sex in French Education, Medicine, and Medical Law, 1799–1815 Sean M. Quinlan June K. Burton. Napoleon and the Woman Question: Discourses of the Other Sex in French Education, Medicine, and Medical Law, 1799–1815. Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2007. 288 pp. Ill. $40.00 (ISBN-10: 0-89672-559-6, ISBN-13: 978-0-89672-559-1). In this excellent book, June K. Burton examines …
Monstrous Births and Medical Networks: Debates over Forensic Evidence, Generation Theory, and Obstetrical Authority in France, ca. 1780-1815
In France between 1780 and 1815, doctors opened a broad correspondence with medical faculties and public officials about foetal anomalies ("monstrosities"). Institutional and legal reforms forced doctors to encounter monstrous births with greater frequency, and they responded by developing new ideas about heredity and embryology to explain malformations to public officials. Though doctors achieved consensus on pathogenesis, they struggled to appl…
Heredity, reproduction, and perfectibility in revolutionary and Napoleonic France, 1789–1815
Shots to the mind: Violence, the brain and biomedicine in popular novels and film in post-1960s America
This article traces an unlikely and gruesome subject: how and why images of people getting shot in the head have become so pervasive in contemporary US fiction and film. Adopting a historical-genealogical approach, the analysis explores how the so-called headshot image emerged from two socio-cultural trends. First, the headshot referenced key historical traumas from the 1960s that involved the deaths of Ernest Hemingway, J. F. Kennedy and Nguyễn …
Demonizing the Sixties: Possession Stories and the Crisis of Religious and Medical Authority in Post‐Sixties American Popular Culture
Michael A. Osborne. The Emergence of Tropical Medicine in France
Over the past two decades, scholars have witnessed a proliferation of studies that explore the relation between science and imperialism in the modern period. Influenced by the so-called cultural turn, this scholarship has drawn critical insight and rigor from postcolonial and subaltern theoretical approaches. Historians have shown how the Western powers used science and technology to expand their territories and subjugate indigenous peoples, whil…
The Time of Enlightenment: Constructing the Future in France, 1750 to Year One
The Cambridge World History of Sexualities
Volume I offers historiographical surveys and general overviews of central topics in the history of world sexualities. Split across twenty-two chapters, this volume places the history of sexuality in dialogue with anthropology, women's history, LGBTQ+ history, queer theory, and public history, as well as examining the impact Freud and Foucault have had on the history of sexuality. The volume continues by providing overviews on the sexual body, fa…
Alison M. Downham Moore, The French Invention of Menopause and the Medicalisation of Women’s Ageing: A History
The Science of Proof: Forensic Medicine in Modern France
History (9 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Art history (5 works) · Historical and Scientific Studies (5 works) · Medicine (5 works)