Toward the end of the Middle Ages, medical writers and philosophers began to devote increasing attention to what they called "women's secrets," by which they meant female sexuality and generation. At the same time, Italian physicians and surgeons began to open human bodies in order to study their functions and the illnesses that afflicted them, culminating in the great illustrated anatomical treatise of Andreas Vesalius in 1543. Katharine Park traces these two closely related developments through a series of case studies of women whose bodies were dissected after their deaths: an abbess, a lactating virgin, several patrician wives and mothers, and an executed criminal. Drawing on a variety of texts and images, she explores the history of women's bodies in Italy between the late thirteenth and the mid-sixteenth centuries in the context of family identity, religious observance, and women's health care.<br /> <br /> Secrets of Women explodes the myth that medieval religious prohibitions hindered the practice of human dissection in medieval and Renaissance Italy, arguing that female bodies, real and imagined, played a central role in the history of anatomy during that time. The opened corpses of holy women revealed sacred objects, while the opened corpses of wives and mothers yielded crucial information about where babies came from and about the forces that shaped their vulnerable flesh. In the process, what male writers knew as the "secrets of women" came to symbolize the most difficult challenges posed by human bodies-- challenges that dissection promised to overcome. Park's study of women's bodies and men's attempts to know them--and through these efforts to know their own--demonstrates the centrality of gender to the development of early modern anatomy.
發表於2024-11-05
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圖書標籤: 醫療史 Gender 醫療史 性彆史 Science EarlyModernEurope Body 身體醫療史
Impressive remark on the "magical power" of vision -- relationship between the viewer and the viewed
評分把解剖從純粹的醫學史中拉齣來,放在更大的社會框架下觀察。很受啟發!
評分perhaps I have a natural aversion to gender-oriented approach. Park is surely to be respected, but I just find gender to be constraining rather than opening up questions. (mainly read chp 4-5)
評分early modern anatomy is driven by the curiosity to know women's uterus, where father's seed and mother's flesh made a baby.
評分把解剖從純粹的醫學史中拉齣來,放在更大的社會框架下觀察。很受啟發!
Secrets Of Women 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載