Barbara Duden's THE WOMAN BENEATH THE SKIN

Barbara Duden's THE WOMAN BENEATH THE SKIN
Barbara Duden's THE WOMAN BENEATH THE SKIN: A DOCTOR'S PATIENTS IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY GERMANY (1991)

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1. George Duby's "total sphere of history"

2. The presumption of an "evident" body

3. The origins of the "modern body"

4. Perspective and the art of fencing

5. "Professional distortion of the body"

6. Bachelard and "the imagination of matter"

7. The "history of corporeality"

8. The "magic of the body"

9. The loss of the body's "social vitality"

10. Policy and hygiene

11. The "body aura"

12. The "cultural hierarchy of the senses"

13. Pathological bodies

14. The flowing body

15. Gynecological medicine

16. Medically defined "health"

17. Where "health" comes from

18. Science and ideology

19. The Scientific Revolution's view of "nature"

20. The category "woman"

21. The body as experience

22. Reproduction and "the context of production"

23. de Sade and modern sexuality

24. Libido and energy

25. G. E. R. Lloyd

26. The "alphabetic mind"

27. Breathing, smell, and sight

28. The intangible body

29. Dallas as metaphor

30. Rudolf zur Lippe

31. On nakedness

32. Diagnoses and experience

33. Concealed bodies and bodily phenomena

34. The obsolete language of the experience of pain

35. What the sick of the past wanted from their doctors

36. "External flows" and "inner processes"

37. The eighteenth-century understanding of sex differences

38. Corporeality, culture, and sexual differentiation

39. "Unstructured osmotic space"

40. Motus and tonus

41. "Inner flux" and "outer flux"

42. Noncorporeal causes of illness (in the past)

43. Sufferings "stuck" in the body (in the past)

44. The experience of personal body pain, then and now

45. The modern objectified body vs. the body of the Middle Ages

46. Our sense of womanhood is confined by history

47. Duden's "body history"

48. The sociogenesis of modern corporeality

49. Understanding the body

50. Leibniz, Descartes, and pain