Secrets de femmes – Le genre, la génération et les origines de la dissection humaine

The central role of female body in the history of anatomy, beyond the historiographical "taboo" around the religious prohibition.

Katharine Park is Zemurray Stone Radcliffe Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University. She won the Pfizer Prize for the best book in the history of science for Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150-1750 (Zone Books, 1998), coauthored with Lorraine Daston.

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Edited by Alexandre Laumonier and Stéphanie Dubois.
Translated from the English (US) by Hélène Quiniou (original title: Secrets of Women. Gender, Generation and the Origins of Human Dissection, Zone Books, 2006).

published in 2009

French edition

14 x 22,5 cm (softcover)

372 pages (62 b/w ill.)

26.00 €

ISBN : 978-2-84066-296-9

EAN : 9782840662969

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