Elizabeth Williams

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Nov. 25 – In 1986, the Iran-Contra affair erupted as President Reagan and Attorney General Edwin Meese…
Nov. 26 – In 1942, President Roosevelt ordered…
Nov. 27 – In 1973, the Senate voted 92-3 to confirm Gerald R. Ford as vice president, succeeding Spiro T. Agnew, who’d resigned.
Nov. 28 – In 1943, President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin met in Tehran during World War II…
Nov. 18 – In 1976, Spain’s parliament approved a bill to establish a democracy after 37 years of dictatorship.
Nov. 19 – In 1863, President Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address as he dedicated a national cemetery at the site of the Civil War battlefield in Pennsylvania.
Nov. 20 – In 1945, 24 Nazi leaders went on trial before an international war crimes tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany….
Nov. 21 – n 1995, the presidents of three rival Balkan states agreed to make peace in Bosnia, ending nearly four years of terror and ethnic bloodletting that have left a quarter of a million people dead in the worst war in Europe since World War II…
Nov. 22 – In 1963, President Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas…
Nov. 24 – In 1963, Jack Ruby shot and mortally wounded…

Selected Publications: A Cultural History of Medical Vitalism in Enlightenment Montpellier (Ashgate, 2003). The Physical and the Moral: Anthropology, Physiology, and Philosophical Medicine in France, 1750-1850 (Cambridge, 1994). "Of Two Lives One? Jean-Charles-Marguerite Guillaume Grimaud and the Question of Holism in Vitalist Medicine," Science in Context 21, 4 (2008) 593-613. "Gags, funnels and tubes: forced feeding of the insane and of suffragettes," Endeavour 32, 4 (2008): 34-39. "Neuroses of the Stomach: Eating, Gender, and Psychopathology in French Medicine, 1800-1870," Isis 98 (March 2007): 54-79.

A Cultural History of Medical Vitalism in Enlightment Montpellier

June 11, 2013

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