Medicine, Science and the Body
Medicine, Science and the Body
The scientific revolution was profound in Scotland and Scottish innovations were influential elsewhere. Yet the way in which the Scottish scientific community, and more specifically the medical establishments in Glasgow and Edinburgh, helped to conceptualise gender in powerful new ways has been under-investigated. This chapter explores how science and medicine reinforced and sometimes replaced religious models of good and bad men and women with categories of healthy and diseased, normal and deviant bodies and minds.
Keywords: Science, Medicine, Body, Health, Mind, Women, Men, gender
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