Purity and Pollution: Gender, Embodiment and Victorian Medicine - Couverture souple

Bashford, Alison

 
9780333777961: Purity and Pollution: Gender, Embodiment and Victorian Medicine

Synopsis

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 and feminist theories on the body, 19th-century medical history and the history of gender and Victorian feminism. This is a cultural history, which investigates the ways in which many different male and female doctors, nurses, midwives, and accoucheurs were implicated in a discourse and a material practice, inescapably about the pure and the polluted.

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À propos de l'auteur

ALISON BASHFORD is a medical historian who lectures in Gender Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia. She is currently writing a second book, The Biopolitics of a Nation .

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9780333682487: Purity and Pollution: Gender, Embodiment and Victorian Medicine

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0333682483 ISBN 13 :  9780333682487
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 1998
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