Purity and Pollution: Gender, Embodiment and Victorian Medicine (1998) (Studies in Gender History)
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- 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, nineteenth-century medical history and the history of gender and Victorian feminism. Purity and Pollution is a cultural history which investigates the ways in which many different practitioners - male and female doctors, nurses, midwives, accoucheurs - were implicated in a discourse and a material practice inescapably about the pure and the polluted.
- Copyright:
- 1998
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- ISBN-13:
- 9780230501249
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780333682487, 9780333682487, 9780333682487
- Publisher:
- Palgrave Macmillan UK, London
- Date of Addition:
- 07/24/20
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- N/A
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Social Studies, Medicine
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- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.