Woman beneath the skin, the: a doctor’s patients in eighteenth-century germany
Auteur :
Duden, Barbara
Éditeur :
Harvard University Press
ISBN :
9780674954045
Date de publication :
30 janv. 1998
Dimensions :
22,9 x 14,9 x 1,7 cm
Poids :
363 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Duden asserts that the most basic biological and medical terms that we use to describe our own bodies—male and female, healthy or sick—are cultural constructions. To illustrate this, she delves into records of an 18th-century German physician who documented the medical histories of 1,800 women of all ages and backgrounds, often in their own words.