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Signs
While modern readers may be initially alienated by the way in which phenomena cited in Duden's profuse quotations from [Dr. Johannes Pelargiusi] Storch's journals conflict with contemporary 'certainties' about the body...her approach ultimately makes the desired point: the culturally contingent 'boundary that separates the body, and especially the body beneath the skin, from the world around it' likewise conditions contemporary understandings, not only of what is known about our bodies but also about how people in other times and places have 'imagined' their bodies.
— Patricia Herminghouse
London Wellcome Institute
Duden splendidly succeeds in recreating this submerged and secret world of female consciousness, and the ambiguous role of the physician in maintaining it. An important milestone.— Roy Porter
Signs
While modern readers may be initially alienated by the way in which phenomena cited in Duden's profuse quotations from [Dr. Johannes Pelargiusi] Storch's journals conflict with contemporary 'certainties' about the body...her approach ultimately makes the desired point: the culturally contingent 'boundary that separates the body, and especially the body beneath the skin, from the world around it' likewise conditions contemporary understandings, not only of what is known about our bodies but also about how people in other times and places have 'imagined' their bodies.— Patricia Herminghouse
Booknews
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 c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Product Details
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Meet the Author
Barbara Duden has been on the faculty of the Science, Technology, and Society Program at Pennsylvania State University and is currently a Fellow at the Institute for Cultural Studies, Essen, Germany.
Table of Contents
Toward a History of the Body
Johann Storch and Women's Complaints
Medical Practice in Eisenach
The Perception of the Body
Conclusion
Works by Johann Storch
Notes
Index