The female body in medicine and literature

by Andrew Mangham

2011

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This title features essays that explore literary texts in relation to the history of gynaecology and women's surgery. It demonstrates how fiction and medicine have a long-established tradition of looking towards each other for inspiration and elucidation in questions of gender.