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Bodies Politic Disease Death and Doctors in Britain 1650-1900 - Picturing History Author: In a historical tour de force, Roy Porter takes a critical look at representations of the body in death, disease and health, and at images of the healing arts in Britain from the mid-seventeenth to the twentieth century. Porter's key assumptions are that the human body is the chief signifier and communicator of all manner of meanings religious, ... more »
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