Nature Displayed: Gender, Science and Medicine 1760-1820 by L.J. Jordanova

By L.J. Jordanova

a set of essays - together with three that experience by no means been released prior to - by way of one of many best figures in cultural heritage. Professor Jordanova examines and reinterprets the writings of eighteenth-century thinkers and, within the technique, sheds mild on modern perspectives on concerns resembling motherhood, sexuality, the physique, artwork and drugs. the quantity comprises many of the author's so much arguable and pioneering paintings, every thing were revised within the mild of the newest historiography and masses of the fabric is released the following for the 1st time.




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