THE WOMAN BENEATH THE SKIN by Barbara Duden, Thomas Dunlop (Trans) ( 9780674954045 )

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Title:

THE WOMAN BENEATH THE SKIN
A DOCTOR'S PATIENTS IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY GERMANY

By:

Barbara Duden, Thomas Dunlop (Trans)

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Publisher:

HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

30 January, 1998

Pages:

256

Translated from:

German

Description:

The author asserts that the most basic biological and medical terms we use to describe our own bodies - male and female, healthy or sick - are indeed cultural constructions. An 18th-century German physician's documented records of 1800 women's medical histories are used to illustrate this.

Synopsis:

In this study the author asserts that the most basic biological and medical terms we use to describe our own bodies - male and female, healthy or sick - are indeed cultural constructions. To illustrate this, Barbara Duden delves into the records of an 18th-century German physician who documented the medical histories of 1800 women of all ages and backgrounds, often in their own words. This record of complaints, symptoms, diagnoses, and treatments reveals an alien understanding of the female body and its functions.

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