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

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

Barbara Duden with Thomas Dunlap (Translator)

256 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction health history sociology challenging informative medium-paced
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In this provocative study, Barbara Duden asserts that the most basic biological and medical terms we use to describe our own bodies - male and female, healthy and sick - are in fact cultural constructions.

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