Pathological bodies : medicine and political culture / Corinna Wagner.

Berkeley, California : Global, Area, and International Archive, University of California Press, [2013]

xii, 315 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-291) and index.

Introduction : constitutions both corporeal and political -- Part I. Revolutionary pathologies. The case of Marie Antoinette : revolutionary politics and the biologically suspect woman -- Monstrous mothers, constitutional Amazons, and the medicalization of the breast -- Part II. Radical pathologies. Murder to dissect : Godwin, Wollstonecraft, and the pathology of indifference -- Hygiene, contamination, and Tom Paine's toenails -- Part III. Royal pathologies. Gout vs. Goût : taste, community, and the monarchy -- Hottentot buttocks, "strange Chinese shapes," and George IV's oriental appetites -- Coda : medicine, politics, and the production of the modern body.