Morbid UndercurrentsIn Morbid Undercurrents, Sean M. Quinlan follows how medical ideas, stemming from the so called birth of the clinic, zigzagged across the intellectual landscape of the French Revolution and its aftermath. It was a remarkable "hotspot" in the historical timeline, when doctors and scientists pioneered a staggering number of fieldsfrom forensic investigation to evolutionary biologyand their innovations captivated the public imagination. During the 1790s