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Michael Sappol
In centuries past, sexual body-parts and same-sex desire were un-men--tionables de-barred from polite conver-sa-tion and printed discourse. Yet one scientific discipline-ana-to-my-had license to rep-re-sent and nar-rate the in-timate details of…
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An imaginative exploration of how Fritz Kahn’s popular scientific illustrations visualized and performed industrial modernity
Shows how nineteenth-century American physicians used anatomy to develop a professional identity, while claiming authority over the living and the dead. This book introduces the middle-class women and men, working…
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A thematic overview of how the human body was perceived in the period from 1800 to 1920, covering birth and death, health and disease, sex and eroticism, medicine, popular beliefs…
Founded 175 years ago, the National Library of Medicine is the world’s largest medical library, with more than 17 million items dating from the 11th century to the present in…
Over the past forty years, the health humanities has emerged as one of the most exciting fields for interdisciplinary scholarship, advancing humanistic inquiry into bioethics, human rights, health care, and…
