Pathological bodies : medicine and political culture / Corinna Wagner.

  • Wagner, Corinna
Date:
[2013]
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Publication/Creation

Berkeley, California : Global, Area, and International Archive, University of California Press, [2013]

Physical description

xii, 315 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-291) and index.

Contents

Introduction : constitutions both corporeal and political -- Part I. Revolutionary pathologies. The case of Marie Antoinette : revolutionary politics and the biologically suspect woman -- Monstrous mothers, constitutional Amazons, and the medicalization of the breast -- Part II. Radical pathologies. Murder to dissect : Godwin, Wollstonecraft, and the pathology of indifference -- Hygiene, contamination, and Tom Paine's toenails -- Part III. Royal pathologies. Gout vs. Goût : taste, community, and the monarchy -- Hottentot buttocks, "strange Chinese shapes," and George IV's oriental appetites -- Coda : medicine, politics, and the production of the modern body.

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    History of Medicine
    BA.T.3.AA8
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ISBN

  • 9781938169083
  • 1938169085
  • 9781938169120
  • 1938169123