Medicalizing Difference : The Eighteenth-Century Construction of the "Hermaphrodite"
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1350374962
ISBN-13
9781350374966
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint
Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 28th, 2026
Print length
208 Pages
Weight
320 grams
Dimensions
23.20 x 15.40 x 1.40 cms
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Exploring 18th-century medicine''s construction of individuals with non-standard sexual anatomy as "hermaphrodites", this book focuses on the genre of the case history from three different languages and national contexts-British, French, and German.
Medicalizing Difference examines case studies written about Anne Grandjean, Michel Anne Drouart, Maria Dorothea Derrier, and an unnamed "Angolan hermaphrodite." Multiple case studies were published about each of these individuals and are discussed throughout the book''s four chapters, each of which focuses on one momentous epistemological shift in the eighteenth-century: an increasing focus on empiricism and the related professionalization of medicine, the expanding market for popular scientific literature, changing notions about generation and reproduction, and the exploration of foreign territories.
This book reads these case histories against the grain and historicizes 18th-century medicine''s construction of the category of the "hermaphrodite", demonstrating that, rather than describing a fact, these histories created their subject of study
Medicalizing Difference examines case studies written about Anne Grandjean, Michel Anne Drouart, Maria Dorothea Derrier, and an unnamed "Angolan hermaphrodite." Multiple case studies were published about each of these individuals and are discussed throughout the book''s four chapters, each of which focuses on one momentous epistemological shift in the eighteenth-century: an increasing focus on empiricism and the related professionalization of medicine, the expanding market for popular scientific literature, changing notions about generation and reproduction, and the exploration of foreign territories.
This book reads these case histories against the grain and historicizes 18th-century medicine''s construction of the category of the "hermaphrodite", demonstrating that, rather than describing a fact, these histories created their subject of study
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