The body between medicine and discipline. Transformations of the medical image and ideal of the human body in the "long" 19th century

Abstract

The book presents the body as a variable historical object and a constantly changeable phenomenon inseparable from the cultural context in which the holder of the concrete body was born, lived and died.

Keywords

• 19th century
• medical reflection on human body
• female’s body
• male’s body
• child’s body
• dead body
• patient’s body
• vaccination
• unconventional medical practices and methods