At the Borders of the Human Beasts, Bodies and Natural Philosophy in the Early Modern Period
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- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- Publish date: 10/01/1999
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Introduction--Erica Fudge, Ruth Gilbert, & Sue Wiseman *Part I: The Human Science?* The Threat of Humanism--Alan Stewart * Shakespeare's Blushes--Brian Cummings * On Monsters and Margins: The Boundaries of the Body--Ruth Gilbert * Bodies without Souls--Michael Newton *Part II: Medical Literatures* Bodily Regimen and Fear of the Beast--Margaret Healy * Signifying Pain:The Rape of Lucrece, Titus AndronicusandOroonokoand the Physicality of Dehumanization--Kate Chedgzoy * Monsters and Midwives: Witchcraft, Midwifery and the "Science" of Childbirth in Jonson'sThe Magnetic Lady--Julie Sanders * Thefuror uterinisand the Construction of the Passionless Woman in Early Eighteenth Century Medical Discourse--Mary Peace *Part III: Noah's Ark* Calling Creatures by Their True Names: The New Science of Animal Difference--Erica Fudge * From Tyson's Pigmie to Hobbes' Leviathan: The Social and the Natural Body--Sue Wiseman * Alexander Monro I and the Moral Theatre of Anatomy--Anita Guerrini *Part IV: Human-Machines* "Marveilous Newtralite"/"Strange Participation:" Mathematics and the Humane--Jesse Edwards * To Map a Body--Stephen Speed * Renaissance Cyborgs: Machines, Bodies and Representation--Jonathan Sawday * Conclusion--Erica Fudge, Ruth Gilbert, & Sue Wiseman Introduction--Erica Fudge, Ruth Gilbert, & Sue Wiseman *Part I: The Human Science?* The Threat of Humanism--Alan Stewart * Shakespeare's Blushes--Brian Cummings * On Monsters and Margins: The Boundaries of the Body--Ruth Gilbert * Bodies without Souls--Michael Newton *Part II: Medical Literatures* Bodily Regimen and Fear of the Beast--Margaret Healy * Signifying Pain:The Rape of Lucrece, Titus AndronicusandOroonokoand the Physicality of Dehumanization--Kate Chedgzoy * Monsters and Midwives: Witchcraft, Midwifery and the "Science" of Childbirth in Jonson'sThe Magnetic Lady--Julie Sanders * Thefuror uterinisand the Construction of the Passionless Woman in Early Eighteenth Century Medical Discourse--Mary Peace *Part III: Noah's Ark* Calling Creatures by Their True Names: The New Science of Animal Difference--Erica Fudge * From Tyson's Pigmie to Hobbes' Leviathan: The Social and the Natural Body--Sue Wiseman * Alexander Monro I and the Moral Theatre of Anatomy--Anita Guerrini *Part IV: Human-Machines* "Marveilous Newtralite"/"Strange Participation:" Mathematics and the Humane--Jesse Edwards * To Map a Body--Stephen Speed * Renaissance Cyborgs: Machines, Bodies and Representation--Jonathan Sawday * Conclusion--Erica Fudge, Ruth Gilbert, & Sue Wiseman
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