Hermaphrodites and the understanding of sexual difference in the early seventeenth century
In this paper, I compare the ways in which three seventeenth-century physi-cians, Rodrigo de Castro, Caspar Bauhin and Jean Riolan, dealt in their works with the anatomical and social problems posed by the hermaphroditic body. I show that early seventeenth-century medical discourses on hermaphrodite...
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Universidade de Aveiro
2021-06-01
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| Online Access: | https://proa.ua.pt/index.php/agora/article/view/25066 |