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

By Barbara Duden

Book Overview

Despite historians' interest in cultural representations of the body, we tend to think of human anatomy and physiology as scientific fact, not historical artifact. In this study Barbara Duden asserts that the most basic biological and medical teams that we use to describe our own bodies - male or female, healthy or sick - are indeed cultural constructions. She sets out to cross the traditional boundary between history and nature by gaining access to the inner existence of a group of women who lived in bodies very different from our own.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674954033
• ISBN13: 9780674954038
• Release Date: September 1991
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.0" x 6.3"