The Woman Beneath the Skin: A Doctor's Patients in Eighteenth-century Germany

The Woman Beneath the Skin: A Doctor's Patients in Eighteenth-century Germany

by Barbara Duden (Author)

Synopsis

The author asserts that the most basic biological and medical terms we use to describe our own bodies - male and female, healthy or sick - are indeed cultural constructions. An 18th-century German physician's documented records of 1800 women's medical histories are used to illustrate this.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 27 Feb 1998

ISBN 10: 0674954041
ISBN 13: 9780674954045