Emblematic monsters : : unnatural conceptions and deformed births in early modern Europe / / A.W. Bates.
In early modern Europe, monstrous births were significant events that were seen alive by many people, and dissected, embalmed and collected after death. Emblematic Monsters is a social history of monstrous births as seen through popular print, scholarly books and the proceedings of learned societies...
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| Superior document: | The Wellcome series in the history of medicine |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam ;, New York, NY : : Rodopi,, 2005. |
| Year of Publication: | 2005 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Clio Medica
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (334 pages) :; illustrations. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- List of Illustrations
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Truth Under the Veil
- Resembling Sins: Monstrous Births as Moralising Emblems
- The Divine Works of God
- A Farrago of Medical Curiosities
- Finding Fault with Nature: Some Causes of Monstrous Births
- From the Womb to the Tomb
- Retrospective Diagnosis
- Conclusion
- Human Monstrous Births, 1500–1700
- Bibliography.