Bodies Politic: Disease, Death and Doctors in Britain, 1650-1900 by Roy Porter

Bodies Politic: Disease, Death and Doctors in Britain, 1650-1900

Roy Porter

328 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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Bodies Politic takes a critical look at representations of the body in death, disease, and health, as well as at images of the healing arts in Britain from the mid-seventeenth to the twentieth century. Arguing that great symbolic weight was attach...

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