The human being as a non-anatomical and non-zoological entity. The emphasis is on the philosophical or artistic treatment of the human being, and includes lay and social attitudes toward the body in history. (From J. Cassedy, NLM History of Medicine Division)
    

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A young, naked man with a wreathed head: back view. Engraving by J.D. Herz after himself, c. 1732.

The purple island, or the isle of man: together with Piscatorie eclogs and other poeticall miscellanies / By P.F.

Two physicians applying the method of cauterisation to clearly defined points of the back and side of two patients. Pen drawing after an Anglo Saxon tenth century manuscript.

Diagrams illustrating: bandaged legs in splints, bandaged upper bodies and bandaged heads and eyes. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1811, after J. Farey, the younger (?).

Moscow: people swimming and sunbathing at Cerebrensky public baths. Etching by M.G. Eichler, 1799, after G. de la Barthe, 1796.

This mortal coil : the human body in history and culture / Fay Bound Alberti.

Nudité et pudeur : le mythe du processus de civilisation / Hans Peter Duerr ; traduit de l'allemand par Véronique Bodin avec la participation de Jacqueline Pincemin.

Namatu uṭal / Mā. Ēkāmparanātaṉ.

Tipi e caratteri : letteratura e fisiognomica nella Spagna medievale / Michelina Patania.

Bodies, sex and desire from the Renaissance to the present / edited by Kate Fisher and Sarah Toulalan.

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This mortal coil : the human body in history and culture / Fay Bound Alberti.

Nudité et pudeur : le mythe du processus de civilisation / Hans Peter Duerr ; traduit de l'allemand par Véronique Bodin avec la participation de Jacqueline Pincemin.

Namatu uṭal / Mā. Ēkāmparanātaṉ.

Tipi e caratteri : letteratura e fisiognomica nella Spagna medievale / Michelina Patania.

Bodies, sex and desire from the Renaissance to the present / edited by Kate Fisher and Sarah Toulalan.