Curious bypaths of history being medico-historical studies and observations

By Augustin Cabanès

Book Overview

Medicine has always had its shadows. Here are the stories it leaves behind. In Curious Bypaths of History, Dr. Augustin Cabanes gathers medical history essays that roam from courtrooms and sickrooms to salons and laboratories, tracing how disease, diagnosis, and fashion for the marvellous shaped reputations and lives. Strange, unsettling, intimate, sharp, irresistible. This medico-historical essay collection reads like a cabinet of curiosities for the historically minded: strange medical curiosities set against medicine and social history, with physicians and famous figures appearing where you least expect them. Cabanes writes with the brisk confidence of a practising doctor and the narrative eye of a journalist, making a historical medicine anthology that rewards the casual browser as much as the dedicated medical humanities readers. It suits readers of biography, true crime, and the odd corners of clinical lore, without losing scholarly poise. Dip in for a single anecdote, or follow the threads that link superstition, experiment, and public spectacle across European medical history, from early modern medicine to the scientific ferment that fed Victorian science and medicine. A landmark historical curiosities collection in its own right, these observations illuminate how societies imagine the body, police behaviour, and turn illness into legend - essential context for history of medicine students and anyone who enjoys cultured non-fiction at its most surprising. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions, this classic is restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9389247217
• ISBN13: 9789389247213
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Alpha Edition
• Length: 398 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"