Emblematic monsters : unnatural conceptions and deformed births in early modern Europe / A.W. Bates.

Title
  1. Emblematic monsters : unnatural conceptions and deformed births in early modern Europe / A.W. Bates.
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  1. Amsterdam ; New York, N.Y. : Rodopi, c2005.

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Additional authors
  1. Bates, A. W. (Alan W.)
Description
  1. 334 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
  1. "In early modern Europe, monstrous births were significant events that were seen alive by many people, and dissected, embalmed and collected after death.
  2. Emblematic Monsters is a social history of monstrous births as seen through popular print, scholarly books and the proceedings of learned societies."
  3. "Most impressively, A.W. Bates draws upon his own experience of diagnosis of birth defects to summarise more than two hundred original descriptions of monstrous births and compare them with modern diagnostic categories."--Jacket.
Series statement
  1. Clio medica, 0045-7183 ; 77
  2. Wellcome series in the history of medicine
Uniform title
  1. Wellcome series in the history of medicine
  2. Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 77.
Subject
  1. Geschichte 1500-1700
  2. History, 17th Century
  3. History, 16th Century
  4. Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
  5. Abnormalities, Severe Teratoid > history
  6. Abnormalities, Severe Teratoid > history
  7. Congenital Abnormalities > history
  8. Abnormalities, Human > Social aspects > Early works to 1800
  9. Abnormalities, Human > Social aspects > Europe
  10. Abnormalities, Human > Europe > Public opinion
  11. Monsters > Early works to 1800
  12. History, Early Modern 1451-1600
  13. Europe
Genre/Form
  1. Early works
Contents
  1. Truth under the veil -- Resembling sins: monstrous births as moralising emblems -- The divine works of God -- A farrago of medical curiosities -- Finding fault with nature: some causes of monstrous births -- From the womb to the tomb -- Retrospective diagnosis.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing action (note)
  1. committed to retain