Emblematic Monsters
Subtitle: Unnatural Conceptions and Deformed Births in Early Modern Europe (Clio Medica 77) (Clio Medica)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Editions Rodopi BV.
Published: November 1, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9789042018624
Subjects: History of medicine; Social history; Medical; History
First sentence: The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries have been seen as a 'golden age' of monsters,2 a period of unprecedented interest during which popular ballads and pamphlets carried news of monstrous births, and books on monsters, written by prominent physicians and natural philosophers, were widely read and went through many editions.
Description: "In early modern Europe, monstrous births were significant events that were seen alive by many people, and dissected, embalmed and collected after death.

Emblematic Monsters is a social history of monstrous births as seen through popular print, scholarly books and the proceedings of learned societies."

"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.