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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 constructions. Duden delves into the records of an eighteenth-century German physician who meticulously documented the medical histories of eighteen hundred women of all ages and backgrounds, often in their own words. This unparalleled record of complaints, symptoms, diagnoses, and treatments reveals a deeply alien understanding of the female body and its functions.
Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Barbara Duden has been on the faculty of the Science, Technology, and Society Program at Pennsylvania State University and is currently a Fellow at the Institute for Cultural Studies, Essen, Germany.
Titel: The Woman Beneath the Skin: A Doctor's ...
Verlag: Harvard University Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: very good