A Cultural History of The Human Body presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present This set of six volumes covers 2800 years of the human body as a physical social spiritual and cultural object Volume 1 A Cultural History of the Human Body in Antiquity 1300 BCE 500 CE Edited by Daniel Garrison Northwestern University Volume 2 A Cultural History of the Human Body in The Medieval Age 500 1500 Edited by Linda Kalof Michigan State University Volume 3 A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Renaissance 1400 1650 Edited by Linda Kalof Michigan State University and William Bynum University College London Volume 4 A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Enlightenment 1600 1800 Edited by Carole Reeves Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine University College London Volume 5 A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Age of Empire 1800 1920 Edited by Michael Sappol National Library of Medicine in Washington DC and Stephen P Rice Ramapo College of New Jersey Volume 6 A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Modern Age 1900 21st Century Edited by Ivan Crozier University of Edinburgh and Chiara Beccalossi University of Queensland Each volume discusses the same themes in its chapters 1 Birth and Death 2 Health and Disease 3 Sex Sexuality 4 Medical Knowledge and Technology 5 Popular Beliefs 6 Beauty and Concepts of the Ideal 7 Marked Bodies I Gender Race Class Age Disability and Disease 8 Marked Bodies II the Bestial the Divine and the Natural 9 Cultural Representations of the Body 10 The Self and Society This means readers can either have a broad overview of a period by reading a volume or follow a theme through history by reading the relevant chapter in each volume Superbly illustrated the full six volume set combines to present the most authoritative and comprehensive survey available on the human body through history

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