Skip to navigation – Site map

HomeNuméros antérieurs16La médecine mentale et la révolut...

La médecine mentale et la révolution de 1848 : la création de la Société médico-psychologique

Jean-Christophe Coffin

Abstracts

The creation of the Medico-Psychological Society (a learned society of psychiatrists) in the middle of the XIXth century underlines the complex links between medecine and politics. While psychiatry was on its way to becoming an institution under state control and to professionalism, some of its members wanted to create a think tank which, beyond the medical issue, would deal with the social issue as well as the politico-administrative ones. Preceded by the launching of a journal as early as 1843, the setting up of the Society, delayed by the February events, was until 1852, faced with erring ways that were certainly linked with political misadventures but also and mainly with divisions distinctive of medical doctors. The political debate did but amplify the diverging interpretations of mental pathologies by physicians who claimed they were experts of the social body.

Top of page

Index terms

Mots-clés :

1848, Médecine
Top of page

References

Electronic reference

Jean-Christophe Coffin, “La médecine mentale et la révolution de 1848 : la création de la Société médico-psychologique”Revue d'histoire du XIXe siècle [Online], 16 | 1998, Online since 10 September 2008, connection on 28 March 2024. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/rh19/129; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/rh19.129

Top of page

Copyright

CC-BY-SA-4.0

The text only may be used under licence CC BY-SA 4.0. All other elements (illustrations, imported files) are “All rights reserved”, unless otherwise stated.

Top of page
Search OpenEdition Search

You will be redirected to OpenEdition Search