Purity and Pollution

Purity and Pollution Gender, Embodiment, and Victorian Medicine - Studies in Gender History

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Publisher's Synopsis

Bashford (women's studies and history, U. of Sydney) looks at practitioners and patients of 19th-century medicine as embodied and sexed subjects. She applies current cultural and feminists theories to such questions as what cultural meanings were embodied by practitioners, how doctors thought of themselves as fleshly and tactile and as carrying or

Book information

ISBN: 9780312210380
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Imprint: St. Martin's Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 610.9034
DEWEY edition: 21
Language: English
Number of pages: 188
Weight: -1g
Height: 228mm
Width: 146mm
Spine width: 25mm