{"product_id":"medicalizing-difference-stephanie-m-hilger-9781350374966","title":"Medicalizing Difference: The Eighteenth-Century Construction of the Hermaphrodite","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExploring 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. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eMedicalizing Difference\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Stephanie M. Hilger\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1350374962\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350374966\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/28\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.44d","brand":"Stephanie M. Hilger","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48801023820031,"sku":"9781350374966","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/medicalizing-difference-stephanie-m-hilger-9781350374966","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}