Freaks : The Pig-Faced Lady of Manchester Square and Other Medical Marvels

by Jan Bondeson

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Format Paperback / Softback

ISBN-10 0752436627

ISBN-13 9780752436623

Publisher The History Press Ltd

Imprint The History Press Ltd

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Feb 1st, 2006

Weight 342 grams

Product Classification: Social & cultural history History of medicine

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This book combines a scientist's scrutiny with a humanist's wonder at the endurance of the human spirit

This is the remarkable story of the lives of individuals afflicted with severe deformities and how seventeenth and eighteenth-century British society reacted to their extraordinary bodies.

From hog-faced women to dog-faced boys, Jan Bondeson examines historical cases of dwarfism, extreme corpulence, giantism, conjoined twins, and extreme hairiness. He considers these individuals not as ''freaks'' but as human beings born with sometimes appalling congenital deformities. Heavily illustrated with woodcuts, engravings, and oil paintings, Freaks combines a scientist''s scrutiny with a humanist''s wonder at the endurance of the human spirit.

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