Bodies Politic: Disease, Death and Doctors in Britain, 1650-1900 (Picturing History Series) [Hardcover]

Roy Porter (Author)

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Hardcover: 296 pages
Publisher: Cornell University Press; 1st Edition edition (30 Aug 2001)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0801439531
ISBN-13: 978-0801439537
Product Dimensions: 2.4 x 1.6 x 0.3 cm
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 165,741 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Jad Adams, BBC History Magazine, November 2001

'a surpassingly good book full of grotesques from the golden age of the satirical cartoon ... What fun!' --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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This text takes a critical look at representations of the body, in death, disease and health, particularly in medical contexts, and images of the healing arts in Britain from the mid-17th to the beginning of the 20th century. The two key assumptions are that the human body is the chief signifier and communicator of all manner of meanings - religious, moral, political and medical alike - and that pre-scientific medicine was an art which depended heavily on performance, ritual, rhetoric and theatre. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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