The remarkables : endocrine abnormalities in art / Carol A. Clark, Orlo H. Clark.

  • Clark, Carol Z.
Date:
2011
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Also known as

Endocrine abnormalities in art

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Berkeley : University of California Medical Humanities Consortium, 2011.

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vi, 218 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 184-190) and index.

Contents

The goiter beautiful : purity, sensuality, fertility -- The goiter grotesque : power, treachery, or humbleness? -- Little people : fascination or exploitation? -- Giants and acromegalics : stigma or stature? -- "An excess of seed" : endocrine disorders of the sex glands, adrenal glands, and parathyroid glands.

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    History of Medicine
    CV /CLA
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  • 9780983463900
  • 0983463905