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The Man-Midwife'S Tale: Re-Reading Male-Authored Midwifery Guides In Britain and America, 1750-1820
<p>Eve Keller locates the emergence of the masculinist "modern, liberal self" in seventeenth century embryology through the close-reading of a wide array of texts invested in articulating embryological theories. In doing so, she points out "the value of reading [medical texts] not a straightforward …
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The pursuit of nature: defining natural histories in eighteenth-century Britain
Many histories of natural history see it as a descriptive science, as a clear forerunner to modern studies of classification, ecology and allied sciences. But this thesis argues that the story of unproblematic progression from eighteenth-century natural history to nineteenth-century and modern …