The Woman Beneath the Skin: A Doctor's Patients in Eighteenth-Century Germany by Duden, Barbara

The Woman Beneath the Skin: A Doctor's Patients in Eighteenth-Century Germany (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780674954045)

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The Woman Beneath the Skin: A Doctor's Patients in Eighteenth-Century Germany by Duden, Barbara

The Woman Beneath the Skin: A Doctor's Patients in Eighteenth-Century Germany

$32.00
The Woman Beneath the Skin: A Doctor's Patients in Eighteenth-Century Germany by Duden, Barbara

The Woman Beneath the Skin: A Doctor's Patients in Eighteenth-Century Germany

$32.00
Format: Paperback
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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. 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. This unparalleled record of complaints, symptoms, diagnoses, and treatments reveals a deeply alien understanding of the female body and its functions.

Author: Barbara Duden
ISBN-10: 0674954041
ISBN-13: 9780674954045
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/30/1998
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.76lbs
Size: 9.03h x 5.90w x 0.55d

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