Medicalizing Difference The Eighteenth-Century Construction of the "Hermaphrodite"
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Stephanie M. Hilger is Professor of Comparative Literature and German at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.Stephanie M. Hilger is a respected expert in the field of intersex in eighteenth century Europe, which this book will further confirm.
KJ Dykstra, Independent Scholar, Canada
Exploring 18th-century medicine’s construction of individuals with non-standard sexual anatomy as “hermaphrodites”, this book focuses on the genre of the case history from three different languages and national contexts—British, French, and German.
Medicalizing Difference examines case studies written about Anne Grandjean, Michel Anne Drouart, Maria Dorothea Derrier, and an unnamed “Angolan hermaphrodite.” Multiple case studies were published about each of these individuals and are discussed throughout the book's four chapters, each of which focuses on one momentous epistemological shift in the eighteenth-century: an increasing focus on empiricism and the related professionalization of medicine, the expanding market for popular scientific literature, changing notions about generation and reproduction, and the exploration of foreign territories.
This book reads these case histories against the grain and historicizes 18th-century medicine’s construction of the category of the “hermaphrodite”, demonstrating that, rather than describing a fact, these histories created their subject of study
Introduction
Chapter 1: Empiricism and the Professionalization of Medicine
Chapter 2: Marketing the Hermaphrodite
Chapter 3: Fluids and Other Matters
Chapter 4: Terra Incognita/Parts Unknown
Conclusion
Works Cited
Critical Interventions in the Medical Humanities promotes a broad range of scholarly work across the Medical and Health Humanities, including both larger-scale intellectual projects and argument-led provocations, to present new field-defining, interdisciplinary research into health and human experience.
Series editorial board:
Josie Gill, Associate Professor in Black British Writing, University of Bristol
Guido Furci, Associate Professor in Comparative Literature and Migration Studies, Paris 3, Sorbonne Nouvelle
Nolwazi Mkhwanazi, Professor of Anthropology at the University of the Pretoria
Kirsten Ostherr, Gladys Louise Fox Professor of English and Director, Medical Futures Lab, Rice University
Priscilla Song, Associate Professor of Humanities and Emergency Medicine, Penn State, USA
Samantha Walton, Reader in Modern Literature, Bath Spa University