Purity and Pollution: Gender, Embodiment and Victorian Medicine by Bashford, A.

Purity and Pollution: Gender, Embodiment and Victorian Medicine (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780333682487)

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Purity and Pollution: Gender, Embodiment and Victorian Medicine by Bashford, A.

Purity and Pollution: Gender, Embodiment and Victorian Medicine

$109.99
Purity and Pollution: Gender, Embodiment and Victorian Medicine by Bashford, A.

Purity and Pollution: Gender, Embodiment and Victorian Medicine

$109.99
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: A. Bashford
ISBN-10: 0333682483
ISBN-13: 9780333682487
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 03/01/1998
Pages: 188
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.86lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.56d
By A. Bashford
By A. Bashford
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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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