Cultural History of the Human Body in the Enlightenment

Carole Reeves is Outreach Historian at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London. She is co-author of Medical Book Illustration: A Short History.

• Introduction: Enlightenment Bodies Carole Reeves (University College London, UK)1 The Body in Birth and Death Lisa Forman Cody (Claremont McKenna College, USA)2 Pliable Bodies: The Moral Biology of Health and Disease Kevin Siena (Trent University, Canada)3 Sexual Knowledge: Panspermist Jokes, Reproductive Technologies, and Virgin Births George Rousseau (Oxford University, UK)4 Medical Knowledge: The Adventures of Mr. Machine, with Morals Jessica Riskin (Stanford University, USA)5 Popular Beliefs about the Dead Body Ruth Richardson (University of Herfordshire, UK)6 The Body Beautiful David M. Turner (Swansea University, UK)7 Marked Bodies and Social Meanings Laura Gowing (King's College London, UK)8 The Puzzle of the Pox-Marked Body Susan Staves (Brandeis University, USA)9 Cultural Representations: Rogue Literature and the Reality of the Begging Body Tim Hitchcock (University of Hertfordshire, UK)10 Self and Society: Attitudes toward Incest in Popular Ballads Ruth Perry (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)Notes Bibliography Contributors Index