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 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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674954041
• ISBN13: 9780674954045
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.0"