La médecine au risque de ses publics: les Archives du magnétisme et du somnambulisme (Strasbourg, 1787-1788)
BHT
- Gantet, Claire Université de Fribourg
- 01.07.2023
Published in:
- Diciottesimo Secolo. - Firenze University Press. - 2023, vol. 8, p. 67-78
English
Mesmerism was built in newspapers and in response to newspapers. Never before probably had an issue of public health been discussed with so much verbal vio-lence. Whom henceforth was recognized medical authority? Th e Archiv für Magnetis-mus und Somnambulismus [Archives of Magnetism and Somnambulism] was published in Strasbourg by the physics professor Johann Lorenz Böckmann in 1788-1789, in 8 volumes of over 100 pages. It was the only scientifi c journal on animal magnetism that really operated as a forum on the new therapy. It attempted to correct the disastrous eff ect of the Parisian condemnation of the notion of a universal fl uid (that was put for-ward by Franz Anton Mesmer) in August 1784 and to promote a scientifi c discourse by denouncing anonymous articles.
- Faculty
- Faculté des lettres et des sciences humaines
- Department
- Département d'histoire
- Language
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- French
- License
- CC BY
- Open access status
- gold
- Identifiers
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- DOI 10.36253/ds-14150
- ISSN 2531-4165
- Persistent URL
- https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/325680
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