The Woman beneath the Skin: A Doctor’s Patients in Eighteenth-Century Germany
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The Woman beneath the Skin: A Doctor’s Patients in Eighteenth-Century Germany
In this provocative study, Barbara 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 indeed cultural constructions. To illustrate this, Duden delves into the records of an eighteenth-century German physician who meticulously documented the medical histories of eighteen hundred women of all ages and backgrounds, often in their own words.
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