Book ID: CBB166126645

The Cultural Politics of Blood, 1500-1900 (2015)

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Zita Nunes (Editor)
Bauer, Ralph (Editor)
Carla L. Peterson (Editor)
Kimberly Anne Coles (Editor)


Springer


Publication Date: 2015
Physical Details: 225 pages
Language: English

The essays of this collection explore how ideas about 'blood' in science and literature have supported, at various points in history and in various places in the circum-Atlantic world, fantasies of human embodiment and human difference that serve to naturalize existing hierarchies.

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Review Marieke M. A. Hendriksen (2017) Review of "The Cultural Politics of Blood, 1500-1900". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 167-168). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Read, Kirk D.
Bigotti, Fabrizio
Ciliberti, Rosagemma
Pezzoni, Barbara
Gorini, Ilaria
Larentis, Omar
Journals
Medicina Historica
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Gesnerus
Filosofia e História da Biologia
Asian Medicine: Tradition and Modernity
Publishers
Fordham University
University of Washington Press
University of Toronto Press
University of Chicago Press
University of California Press
Fundación Bancaja
Concepts
Human body
Medicine
Science and literature
Blood
Childbirth
Physiology
People
Shakespeare, William
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de
Harvey, William
Vico, Giovanni Battista
Vesalius, Andreas
Swift, Jonathan
Time Periods
17th century
16th century
18th century
Early modern
Renaissance
19th century
Places
Italy
France
England
Japan
Germany
Europe
Institutions
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
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