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Purity and Pollution: Gender, Embodiment and Victorian Medicine (Studies in Gender History)
Alison Bashford
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Description for Purity and Pollution: Gender, Embodiment and Victorian Medicine (Studies in Gender History)
Hardcover. In the STUDIES IN GENDER HISTORY series, this text examines practitioners of medicine, as well as patients, as embodied and sexed subjects and brings together recent cultural and feminist theories on the body, nineteenth-century medical history and the history of gender and Victorian feminism. Series: Studies in Gender History. Num Pages: 171 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLL; HBTB; JFC; JFFK; M. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 394.
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 medical history and the history of gender and Victorian feminism. Purity and Pollution is a cultural history which investigates the ways in which many different practitioners - male and female doctors, nurses, midwives, accoucheurs - were implicated in a discourse and a material practice inescapably about the pure and the polluted.
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 medical history and the history of gender and Victorian feminism. Purity and Pollution is a cultural history which investigates the ways in which many different practitioners - male and female doctors, nurses, midwives, accoucheurs - were implicated in a discourse and a material practice inescapably about the pure and the polluted.
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Series
Studies in Gender History
Condition
New
Weight
394g
Number of Pages
171
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333682487
SKU
V9780333682487
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99-15
About Alison Bashford
Alison Bashford is Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History at the University of Cambridge, UK. She has taught Pacific and Australian history at the University of Sydney, Australia, and Harvard University, USA.
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