Medicalizing Difference: The Eighteenth-Century Construction of the ""Hermaphrodite""

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Stephanie M. Hilger (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)

Medicalizing Difference

The Eighteenth-Century Construction of the ""Hermaphrodite""

Stephanie M. Hilger (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)

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English

Bloomsbury Academic
14 November 2024

Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800; Medical sociology; History of medicine

Series: Critical Interventions in the Medical and Health Humanities

Exploring 18th-century medicine’s construction of individuals with non-standard sexual anatomy as “hermaphrodites”, this book focuses on the genre of the case history from three different languages and national contexts—British, French, and German.

Medicalizing Difference examines case studies written about Anne Grandjean, Michel Anne Drouart, Maria Dorothea Derrier, and an unnamed “Angolan hermaphrodite.” Multiple case studies were published about each of these individuals and are discussed throughout the book's four chapters, each of which focuses on one momentous epistemological shift in the eighteenth-century: an increasing focus on empiricism and the related professionalization of medicine, the expanding market for popular scientific literature, changing notions about generation and reproduction, and the exploration of foreign territories.

This book reads these case histories against the grain and historicizes 18th-century medicine’s construction of the category of the “hermaphrodite”, demonstrating that, rather than describing a fact, these histories created their subject of study

By: Stephanie M. Hilger (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign USA)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781350374928
ISBN 10: 135037492X
Series: Critical Interventions in the Medical and Health Humanities
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 14 November 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction Chapter 1: Empiricism and the Professionalization of Medicine Chapter 2: Marketing the Hermaphrodite Chapter 3: Fluids and Other Matters Chapter 4: Terra Incognita/Parts Unknown Conclusion Works Cited

Stephanie M. Hilger is Professor of Comparative Literature and German at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.

Reviews for Medicalizing Difference: The Eighteenth-Century Construction of the ""Hermaphrodite""

Stephanie M. Hilger is a respected expert in the field of intersex in eighteenth century Europe, which this book will further confirm. * KJ Dykstra, Independent Scholar, Canada *