Corps humain

The female body in medicine and literature

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This title features essays that explore literary texts in relation to the history of gynaecology and women's surgery. It demonstrates how fiction and medicine have a long-established tradition of looking towards each other for inspiration and elucidation in questions of gender.

Elegant anatomy: the eighteenth-century Leiden anatomical collecti…

by Hendriksen, Marieke M. A.

fromHistory of science and medicine library

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"In Elegant Anatomy Marieke Hendriksen offers an account of the material culture of the eighteenth-century Leiden anatomical collections, which have not been studied in detail before. The author introduces the novel analytical concept of aesthesis, as these historical medical co…

Elegant anatomy: the eighteenth-century Leiden anatomical collecti…

by Hendriksen, Marieke M. A.

fromHistory of science and medicine library

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"In Elegant Anatomy Marieke Hendriksen offers an account of the material culture of the eighteenth-century Leiden anatomical collections, which have not been studied in detail before. The author introduces the novel analytical concept of aesthesis, as these historical medical co…

Elegant anatomy: the eighteenth-century Leiden anatomical collecti…

by Hendriksen, Marieke M. A.

fromHistory of science and medicine library

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"In Elegant Anatomy Marieke Hendriksen offers an account of the material culture of the eighteenth-century Leiden anatomical collections, which have not been studied in detail before. The author introduces the novel analytical concept of aesthesis, as these historical medical co…

Religion and female body in ancient Judaism and its environments

by International Conference on the Deuterocanonical Books

fromDeuterocanonical and cognate literature studies

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"This volume publishes papers read at the ninth International Conference on the Deuterocanonical Books, Budapest, 2012. The authors explore various aspects of manifestations of the female principle within the literature of the Ancient Near East, Early Judaism, and the nascent Ch…

La réalité virtuelle: avec ou sans le corps?

by MILON, ALAIN

fromCollection Le Corps plus que jamais

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Le corps humain semble avalé par la cyberculture. Mais quels liens existent entre ces images de synthèse et le corps humain? A. Milon précise que le virtuel ne s'oppose pas au réel mais indique ce qui est possible. Il rappelle que ce n'est pas l'effacement des limites du corps m…

Rhetoric of sensibility in eighteenth-century culture

by Goring, Paul

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Paul Goring explores the eighteenth-century fascination with the human body as an eloquent, expressive object. Through innovative readings of Sterne, Richardson and other authors alongside manuals on acting and public speaking, Goring reveals the ways in which the body became an…

The prince's body: Vincenzo Gonzaga and Renaissance medicine

by Finucci, Valeria

fromI Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history

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"This book is part of the current debate among historians of medicine, cultural studies theorists, gender and sexuality scholars, and literary critics regarding key interrelated preoccupations of the early modern period (or indeed of any period): sexuality, reproduction, beauty,…