Cultural Approaches to the History of Medicine: Mediating Medicine in Early Modern and Modern Europe
Cultural Approaches to the History of Medicine: Mediating Medicine in Early Modern and Modern Europe
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This volume looks at the cultural history of medicine, exploring issues as diverse as dissection of the heart, childbirth, masturbation, animal care, hermaphrodites, orthopaedics, miracle drugs, smallpox and sex advice in different European cultures from the 1600s to the beginning of the 21st century. Each case study illustrates various roles of mediation, reconciling conflicting ideas in the medical encounter as an instrument of domination, or conversely, of resistance. Roy Porter’s foreword conveys the methodological significance as well as the pleasure of these essays.
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