The Woman Beneath the Skin: A Doctor's Patients in Eighteenth-Century Germany

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Johann Storch a physician who lived and worked in the town of Eisenach Germany during the first half of the 18th century documented the medical histories of some 1 800 women of all ages and social stations often in their own words. Duden (fellow Institute for Cultural Studies Essen Germany) uses this material to reveal how people of another time experienced the body how the doctor and his patients envisioned the inside of the female body and how these ideas shaped their actions and gave meaning to their experiences. Annotation copyright Book News Inc. Portland Or.