Making the body politic through medicine: taste, health and identity in the Dutch Republic, 1636–1698

How, where and by whom were bodies shaped, maintained and politicized through medicine, diet and taste in the seventeenth-century Low Countries? The medicinal use of foodstuffs, tastes and diets played an important role in the maintenance and restoration of health in the early modern period. Simulta...

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Main Authors: Marieke M.A. Hendriksen, Alexander Wragge-Morley
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2022-01-01
Series:BJHS Themes
Online Access:https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2058850X22000054/type/journal_article