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      Abortion

      Mary Fissell

      From classical Greece to Roe v. Wade, a long-overdue history of abortion through changing social and cultural climates.

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      Pushback

      Mary Fissell

      The long history of how restricting access to abortion has been used to curtail women's advancement Attitudes about abortion cycle between long periods of widespread tolerance, to repression, and back…

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      Marfa Garden

      Jim Martinez, Mary Lou Saxon, Jim Fissel, Martha Hughes

      A field guide to more than a hundred plants of the Chihuahuan Desert

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      Patients, Power and the Poor in Eighteenth-Century Bristol

      Mary E. Fissell

      In early modern England, housewives, clergymen, bloodletters, herb women, and patients told authoritative tales about the body. By the end of the eighteenth century, however, medicine had begun to drown…

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      Patients, Power and the Poor in Eighteenth-Century Bristol

      Mary E. Fissell

      In early modern England, housewives, clergymen, bloodletters, herb women, and patients told authoritative tales about the body. By the end of the eighteenth century, however, medicine had begun to drown…

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      Vernacular Bodies: The Politics of Reproduction in Early Modern England

      Mary E. Fissell

      Presenting an account of ordinary people’s ideas about reproduction, this book offers a different way to think about the history of the body by focusing on women’s bodies, showing how…

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      Vernacular Bodies: The Politics of Reproduction in Early Modern England

      Mary E. Fissell (Associate Professor, History of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University)

      Offers a way to think about the history of the body by focusing on women’s bodies, showing how ideas about conception, pregnancy, and childbirth were also ways of talking about…

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      Marfa Garden: The Wonders of Dry Desert Plants

      Jim Martinez,Mary Lou Saxon,Jim Fissel,Martha Hughes

      A stunning guide celebrating the flowering plants of the Chihuahuan Desert

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