Medicalizing Difference
The Eighteenth-Century Construction of the "Hermaphrodite"
Contenu
"Exploring 18th-century medicine's construction of individuals with non-standard sexual anatomy as "hermaphrodites", this book draws on insights from gender, critical race, and disability studies. It uses the genre of the 'case study' to offer a careful historicization of 18th-century medicine's construction of the category of the hermaphrodite"--
Informations bibliographiques
novembre 2024, env. 208 Pages, Critical Interventions in the Medical and Health Humanities, Anglais
Bloomsbury Academic
978-1-350-37492-8