Purity and Pollution: Gender, Embodiment and Victorian Medicine (Studies in Gender History) - Hardcover

Bashford, A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0333682483 ISBN 13: 9780333682487

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan, 1998

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Alison Bashford is Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History at the University of Cambridge, UK. She has taught Pacific and Australian history at the University of Sydney, Australia, and Harvard University, USA.

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• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0333682483
• ISBN 13: 9780333682487
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 205
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