Medicalizing Difference by Stephanie M. Hilger - 9781350374966

Medicalizing DifferenceThe Eighteenth-Century Construction of the \""Hermaphrodite\""\nAuthor(s): Stephanie M. Hilger\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Bloomsbury Academic\nISBN-13: 9781350374966, 978-1350374966\nSynopsis\nExploring 18th-century medicines construction of individuals with non-standard sexual anatomy as hermaphrodites, this book focuses on the genre of the case history from three different languages and national contextsBritish, French, and German. \n\nMedicalizing Difference examines case studies written about Anne Grandjean, Michel Anne Drouart, Maria Dorothea Derrier, and an unnamed Angolan hermaphrodite. Multiple case studies were published about each of these individuals and are discussed throughout the book's four chapters, each of which focuses on one momentous epistemological shift in the eighteenth-century: an increasing focus on empiricism and the related professionalization of medicine, the expanding market for y