"A Samuel and Althea Stroum Book." Includes bibliographical references (pages [225]-238) and index.
Contents:
On either side of the early modern: posthuman and premodern bodies and selves -- Subjectified parts and supervenient selves: rewriting galenism in Crooke's microcosmographia -- Fixing the female: books of practical physic for women -- Making up for losses: the workings of gender in Harvey's De Generatione Animalium -- Embryonic individuals: mechanism, embryology, and modern man -- The masculine subject of touch: case histories from the birthing room.
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