Introduction: morbid undercurrents-medicine and culture after the revolution
Settings: the cultural world of medical practice, ca. 1750-1800
Medicine in the boudoir: the Marquis de Sade and medical understanding after the Reign of Terror
Writing sexual difference: the natural history of women and gendered visions, ca. 1800
Seeing and knowing: readers and physiognomic science
Sex and the citizen: reproductive manuals and fashionable readers under the Napoleonic state
Sculpting ideal bodies: medicine, aesthetics, and desire in the artist's studio
The mesmerist renaissance: medical undercurrents and testing the limits of scientific authority
Physiology as literary genre: passions, taste, and social agendas under the Restoration and July monarchy
Epilogue: medicine, writing, and subculture after the revolution.