Purity and Pollution: Gender, Embodiment and Victorian Medicine by A. Bashford
Purity and Pollution: Gender, Embodiment and Victorian Medicine

A. Bashford

Purity and Pollution: Gender, Embodiment and Victorian Medicine

A. Bashford

188 pages hardcover 1998

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Like medical knowledge and practice itself, most medical histories are fascinated with the bodies of patients. Bashford examines practitioners of medicine, as well as patients, as embodied and sexed subjects. She brings together recent cultural an...

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