On either side of the early modern: posthuman and premodern bodies and selves -- Subjectified parts and supervenient selves: rewriting galenism in Crooke's microcosmographia -- Fixing the female: books of practical physic for women -- Making up for losses: the workings of gender in Harvey's De Generatione Animalium -- Embryonic individuals: mechanism, embryology, and modern man -- The masculine subject of touch: case histories from the birthing room
Notes
"A Samuel and Althea Stroum Book."
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-238) and index
