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Matthew Ramsey

Associate Professor of History

Founding Director (2003-2006), Center for Medicine, Health, and Society

***Commencement 2004, as chair of Faculty Senate***

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CONTACT INFORMATION

Address: VU Station B #351656, 2301 Vanderbilt Place, Nashville, TN 37235-1656, USA

Office: 202 Benson Hall

Telephone: 1-615-322-0096

Fax: 1-615-343-6002

E-mail: matthew.ramsey@vanderbilt.edu

INTERESTS

I teach courses in the Vanderbilt History Department on France and Europe in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and a graduate seminar on the modern professions in Europe and America. I have also taught the foundations course for the new program in Medicine, Health & Society, and a seminar for the College Scholars Program on "Disease in History: From the Black Death to AIDS." My research primarily concerns the social and cultural history of France in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and the history of medicine and public health. I am the author of Professional and Popular Medicine in France, 1770- 1830: The Social World of Medical Practice and am completing a book on the development of professional monopoly in French medicine. Current research interests include the history of therapeutics and diagnostics and the comparative history of public health. Recent publications in this area are “Prévention et thérapeutique: le cas de la rage”; “Uroscopy and Urinalysis: Tradition and Innovation in Diagnostic Practices”; and “Antihygiénisme et libéralisme: vers une histoire comparée.” A secondary research interest is cultural politics in the era of the French Revolution. A publication in this area is "Revolutionary Politics and Revolutionary Culture: Shakespeare in France, 1789-1815.”

CURRICULUM VITAE

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COURSES

Fall 2008

History 226

Revolutionary Europe, 1789-1815

History 295

Revolutions in the Atlantic World

Spring 2009

History 234

Modern France

History 305 (graduate seminar), with Daniel Usner

The American and French Revolutions

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LINKS

Académie Nationale de Médecine, Paris

Alternative Medicine Homepage

American Association for the History of Medicine

American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

Bibliothèque Interuniversitaire de Médecine (Paris)

Bibliothèque nationale de France

Encyclopedia of 1848 Revolutions

European Association for the History of Medicine and Health

Fabula: francophone literary studies site

France: news and information

Francophone sites - history of medicine

French Historical Studies (journal)

Le Monde

Libération

National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine

National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities

National Library of Medicine

Nouvel Observateur

Parisian Stage during the French Revolution

Society for French Studies (UK)

Society for the Social History of Medicine

Society for the Study of French History (UK)

Trésor de la Langue Française (superb on-line dictionary)

WebEncyclo - francophone encyclopedia with reader contributions

Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London (former Wellcome Institute)

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The monk Frère Côme was a celebrated lithotomist (surgeon specializing in l'opération de la taille, or cutting to extract a bladder stone).

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Click here to play "Le Tableau de l'opération de la taille " from Le Labyrinthe et autres histoires: pièces de caractère by Marin Marais (1656-1728). For the text, click here.

Opération de la taille: engraving by Lalouette. From François Tolet (1647-1724) , Traité de la lithotomie (1708)

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