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Katharine Park Secrets Of Women (Hardback) Zone Books
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- Book Title
- Secrets Of Women
- Publication Name
- Secrets Of Women
- Title
- Secrets Of Women
- Subtitle
- Gender, Generation, and the Origins of Human Dissection
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10
- 1890951676
- EAN
- 9781890951672
- ISBN
- 9781890951672
- Publisher
- Zone Books
- Genre
- Science, Health & Fitness, Medical, Social Science
- Topic
- Forensic Medicine, Women's Health, Life Sciences / Human Anatomy & Physiology, Women's Studies, History
- Release Year
- 2006
- Release Date
- 01/11/2006
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 1.4in
- Item Length
- 9.1in
- Item Width
- 6.5in
- Item Weight
- 27.6 Oz
- Series
- Zone Books
- Publication Year
- 2006
- Type
- Textbook
- Number of Pages
- 424 Pages
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Toward the end of the Middle Ages, medical writers and philosophers began to devote increasing attention to what they called "women's secrets," by which they meant female sexuality and generation. At the same time, Italian physicians and surgeons began to open human bodies in order to study their functions and the illnesses that afflicted them, culminating in the great illustrated anatomical treatise of Andreas Vesalius, in 1543. Katharine Park traces these two closely related developments through a series of case studies of women whose bodies were dissected after their deaths: an abbess, a lactating virgin, several patrician wives and mothers, and an executed criminal. Drawing on texts and images, she explores the history of women's bodies in Italy between the late thirteenth and the mid-sixteenth centuries in the context of family identity, religious observance, and women's health care. Secrets of Women explodes the myth that medieval religious prohibitions hindered the practice of human dissection in medieval and Renaissance Italy, arguing that female bodies, real and imagined, played a central role in the history of anatomy during that time. The opened corpses of holy women revealed sacred objects, while the opened corpses of wives and mothers yielded crucial information about where babies came from and about the forces that shaped their vulnerable flesh. In the process, what male writers knew as the "secrets of women" came to symbolize the most difficult challenges posed by human bodies -- challenges that dissection promised to overcome. Thus Park demonstrates the centrality of gender to the development of early modern anatomy through a study of women's bodies and men's attempts to know them and, through them, to know their own.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Zone Books
ISBN-10
1890951676
ISBN-13
9781890951672
eBay Product ID (ePID)
52854370
Product Key Features
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Forensic Medicine, Women's Health, Life Sciences / Human Anatomy & Physiology, Women's Studies, History
Publication Year
2006
Type
Textbook
Genre
Science, Health & Fitness, Medical, Social Science
Number of Pages
424 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.1in
Item Height
1.4in
Item Width
6.5in
Item Weight
27.6 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Qm33.4.P37 2006
Grade from
College Graduate Student
Reviews
& " She relates a fascinating history of women on the dissection table.... Park's book will undoubtedly prove to be an important contribution to the history of anatomy. For the first time it extensively discusses the history of anatomy fro the viewpoint of the corpse and, because of its particular focus on women's bodies, it will radically change the way we think about the (male) history of the anatomized body. As such, the book is a 'must read' for anyone working on the history of pre-modern medicine. But because of its lucid style and fascinating argument, it is also surprisingly accessible, and I recommend it to anyone interested in the history of anatomy.& " -- Nature, Park's meticulously documented book is medical historiography at its best ... . She has shed light on a notion -- 'the secrets of women' -- that should have long ago been recognized as deserving far more attention than has been paid to it., This is a fascinating and astute discussion with an exciting thesis, taking the subject of dissection out of the medical school and situating it origins in practices of everyday life., "She relates a fascinating history of women on the dissection table.... Park's book will undoubtedly prove to be an important contribution to the history of anatomy. For the first time it extensively discusses the history of anatomy from the viewpoint of the corpse and, because of its particular focus on women's bodies, it will radically change the way we think about the (male) history of the anatomized body. As such, the book is a 'must read' for anyone working on the history of pre-modern medicine. But because of its lucid style and fascinating argument, it is also surprisingly accessible, and I recommend it to anyone interested in the history of anatomy." -- "Nature", Park's book will undoubtedly prove to be an important contribution to the history of anatomy. For the first time, it extensively discusses the history of anatomy from the viewpoint of the corpse and, because of its particular focus on women's bodies, it will radically change the way we think about the (male) history of the anatomized body., "Park's meticulously documented book is medical historiography at its best.... She has shed light on a notion-'the secrets of women'-that should have long ago been recognized as deserving far more attention than has been paid to it." - Sherwin B. Nubland, The New Republic, Park's meticulously documented book is medical historiography at its best.... [Park] has shed light on a notion-'the secrets of women'-that should have long ago been recognized as deserving far more attention than has been paid to it., Park's meticulously documented book is medical historiography at its best.... [Park] has shed light on a notion--'the secrets of women'--that should have long ago been recognized as deserving far more attention than has been paid to it.
Publication Name
Secrets of Women : Gender, Generation, and the Origins of Human Dissection
Copyright Date
2006
Target Audience
College Audience
Lccn
2006-044710
Dewey Decimal
611
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
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