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

by Barbara Duden

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674954033
• ISBN13: 9780674954038
• Release Date: September 1991
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 241 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"