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Purity and pollution : gender, embodiment, and Victorian medicine / Alison Bashford.

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Like medical knowledge and practice itself, most medical histories are fascinated with the bodies of patients. Bashford examines practitioners of medicine, as well as patients, as embodied and sexed subjects. She brings together recent cultural and feminist theories on the body, nineteenth-century m...

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Main Author: Bashford, Alison, 1963-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Basingstoke : Macmillan, 1998.
Series:Studies in gender history.
Subjects:
Social medicine > History > 19th century.
Human body > Social aspects > History > 19th century.
Women in medicine > History > 19th century.
Sex role > History > 19th century.
Gender identity > History > 19th century.
Feminist theory.
Gender identity.
Human body > Social aspects.
Sex role.
Social medicine.
Women in medicine.
History.

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