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Revealing bodies : anatomy, allegory, and the grounds of knowledge in the long eighteenth century / Erin Goss.

Rehabilitating bodies : health, history, and the American Civil War / Lisa A. Long.

Three forms of sudden death : and other reflections on the grandeur and misery of the body / F. Gonzalez-Crussi.

Carnal hermeneutics / edited by Richard Kearney and Brian Treanor.

The comparable body : analogy and metaphor in ancient Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and Greco-Roman medicine / edited by John Z. Wee.

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Revealing bodies : anatomy, allegory, and the grounds of knowledge in the long eighteenth century / Erin Goss.

Rehabilitating bodies : health, history, and the American Civil War / Lisa A. Long.

Three forms of sudden death : and other reflections on the grandeur and misery of the body / F. Gonzalez-Crussi.

Carnal hermeneutics / edited by Richard Kearney and Brian Treanor.

The comparable body : analogy and metaphor in ancient Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and Greco-Roman medicine / edited by John Z. Wee.