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Item Details
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PURITY AND POLLUTION
GENDER, EMBODIMENT, AND VICTORIAN MEDICINE |
| By: |
Alison Bashford |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
| List price:
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£108.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0230501249 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780230501249 |
| Publisher: |
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN |
| Pub. date: |
1 March, 1998 |
| Synopsis: |
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. What were the cultural meanings embodied by these practitioners? How did doctors think about themselves: as fleshly and tactile, as carrying a contagion, or as being immune to contagion? How did nurses conceptualize and enact that cleanliness so insistently impressed upon their very bodies and morals, as well as their wards and homes? In what ways did the medical gaze turn inwards? |
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UK |
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Palgrave Macmillan |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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