Bodies Politic: Disease, Death and Doctors in Britain, 1650 1900
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The renowned historian Roy Porter here takes us on an entertaining trip through more than two hundred years of visual and verbal accounts of the body and medicine. Focusing his attention for the first time on visual imagery, Porter examines the ways in which the sick and their healers were represented to the culture at large from the mid-seventeenth to the early twentieth century. The author combines erudition, a sharp sense of humor, and abundant...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0801439531
ISBN13:9780801439537
Release Date:January 2001
Publisher:Cornell University Press
Length:328 Pages
Weight:1.95 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.4" x 9.4"
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