Across early modern Europe, the growing scientific practice of dissection prompted new and insightful ideas about the human body. This collection of essays expl

Across early modern Europe, the growing scientific practice of dissection prompted new and insightful ideas about the human body. This collection of essays expl

Early modern European thought held that men and women were essentially the same. During the seventeenth century, medical and legal arguments began to turn again

This book explores the popular and elite debates over the creation of a two-sex model of human bodies in eighteenth-century Spain.

Hutton looks at Manchester and Oxford to provide a comparative history of anatomical study. Using the Anatomy Act as a focal point, she examines how these two c