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Foreign Bodies and the Body Politic Discourses of Social Pathology in Early Modern England
by Harris, Jonathan Gil, Orgel, Stephen, Barton, Anne
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- ISBN-13: 9780521034685
- ISBN: 052103468X
- Edition: 1
- Publication Date: 2006
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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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.Harris, Jonathan Gil is the author of 'Foreign Bodies and the Body Politic Discourses of Social Pathology in Early Modern England', published 2006 under ISBN 9780521034685 and ISBN 052103468X.
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