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1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
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Introduction -- Unit Outline. Lesson 1: The Body as Historical Subject ; Lesson 2: Legal and Political Bodies ; Lesson 3: Healthy and Unhealthy Bodies ; Lesson 4: Normal and Abnormal Bodies ; Lesson 5: Scientific Bodies ; Lesson 6: Sexed, Sexual, and Reproductive Bodies ; Lesson 7: Mind, Body, and Sensibility ; Lesson 8: Other Bodies -- Assessment Options -- Further Reading.
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Introduction : Modernity has involved profound changes to human bodies. As a subject, the body has been central to developments in legal regulation, political debate, medical interventions, scientific understanding, personal experience, cultural representation, and social interaction. This course gives students the opportunity to critically explore some of the many ways in which changes relating to the body were tied to the Enlightenment era and the emergence of modernity. Themes to be addressed include identity and nationhood; health and disability; selfhood and psychology; sex and reproduction; science and art; display and embodiment; and race and gender. Our pursuit of these themes will focus on what historians have identified as a key period for change, 1650 to 1850. To reflect the distinctly interdisciplinary character of historical research on the body, we will use a variety of approaches and materials in this course that includes studying museum objects, reading literary sources, reviewing legal records, analyzing visual material, and more
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Includes bibliographical references
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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DOI:
10.5040/9781474209465.002
