Foreign Bodies and the Body Politic
Jonathan Gil (Ithaca College, New York) Harris
Cambridge University Press, 2006
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This book examines the overlap between early modern English attitudes to disease and society and explores the cultural meaning of the image of the body. One can detect the origins of not only modern xenophobic attitudes to foreigners as carriers of disease, but also 'germ' theory in general.
- ISBN-13
- 9780521034685
- ISBN-10
- 052103468X
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Year
- 2006
- Publication date
- 2006-12-14
- Pages
- 216
- Dimensions
- 228x151x12
- Weight
- 327