The Woman Beneath the Skin: A Doctor's Patients in Eighteenth-Century Germany Duden Barbara
The Woman Beneath the Skin: A Doctor's Patients in Eighteenth-Century Germany Duden Barbara In this provocative study Barbara Duden asserts that the most basic biological and medical terms that we…
Specifikacia The Woman Beneath the Skin: A Doctor's Patients in Eighteenth-Century Germany Duden Barbara
The Woman Beneath the Skin: A Doctor's Patients in Eighteenth-Century Germany Duden Barbara
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. This unparalleled record of complaints, symptoms, diagnoses, and treatments reveals a deeply alien understanding of the female body and its 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.