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Woman beneath the Skin A Doctor’s Patients in Eighteenth-Century Germany

Duden Barbara
Heftet / 1998 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780674954045
Publisert
1998-01-30
Utgiver
Vendor
Harvard University Press
Vekt
363 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
149 mm
Dybde
17 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
256

Forfatter
Duden Barbara
Oversetter
Dunlap Thomas

Om bidragsyterne

Barbara Duden has been on the faculty of the Science, Technology, and Society Program at Pennsylvania State University and is currently a Fellow at the Institute for Cultural Studies, Essen, Germany.

Woman beneath the Skin A Doctor’s Patients in Eighteenth-Century Germany

Duden Barbara
Heftet / 1998 / Engelsk
Duden Barbara
Heftet / 1998 / Engelsk
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While modern readers may be initially alienated by the way in which phenomena cited in Duden’s profuse quotations from [Dr. Johannes Pelargius] Storch’s journals conflict with contemporary ‘certainties’ about the body…her approach ultimately makes the desired point: the culturally contingent ‘boundary that separates the body, and especially the body beneath the skin, from the world around it’ likewise conditions contemporary understandings, not only of what is known about our bodies but also about how people in other times and places have ‘imagined’ their bodies.

- Patricia Herminghouse, Signs

Duden splendidly succeeds in recreating this submerged and secret world of female consciousness, and the ambiguous role of the physician in maintaining it. An important milestone.

- Roy Porter, Wellcome Institute, London,

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. 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. This unparalleled record of complaints, symptoms, diagnoses, and treatments reveals a deeply alien understanding of the female body and its functions.
Les mer
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 cultural constructions. To illustrate this, she delves into records of an 18th-century German physician who documented the medical histories of 1,800 women of all ages and backgrounds, often in their own words.
Les mer
Toward a History of the Body Johann Storch and Women's Complaints Medical Practice in Eisenach The Perception of the Body Conclusion Works by Johann Storch Notes Index

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While modern readers may be initially alienated by the way in which phenomena cited in Duden’s profuse quotations from [Dr. Johannes Pelargius] Storch’s journals conflict with contemporary ‘certainties’ about the body…her approach ultimately makes the desired point: the culturally contingent ‘boundary that separates the body, and especially the body beneath the skin, from the world around it’ likewise conditions contemporary understandings, not only of what is known about our bodies but also about how people in other times and places have ‘imagined’ their bodies.

- Patricia Herminghouse, Signs

Duden splendidly succeeds in recreating this submerged and secret world of female consciousness, and the ambiguous role of the physician in maintaining it. An important milestone.

- Roy Porter, Wellcome Institute, London,

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. 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. This unparalleled record of complaints, symptoms, diagnoses, and treatments reveals a deeply alien understanding of the female body and its functions.
Les mer
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 cultural constructions. To illustrate this, she delves into records of an 18th-century German physician who documented the medical histories of 1,800 women of all ages and backgrounds, often in their own words.
Les mer
Toward a History of the Body Johann Storch and Women's Complaints Medical Practice in Eisenach The Perception of the Body Conclusion Works by Johann Storch Notes Index

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780674954045
Publisert
1998-01-30
Utgiver
Vendor
Harvard University Press
Vekt
363 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
149 mm
Dybde
17 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
256

Forfatter
Duden Barbara
Oversetter
Dunlap Thomas

Om bidragsyterne

Barbara Duden has been on the faculty of the Science, Technology, and Society Program at Pennsylvania State University and is currently a Fellow at the Institute for Cultural Studies, Essen, Germany.

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