Nature Displayed : Gender, Science and Medicine 1760-1820 (Paperback)

1. Cultural Effort: An Introductory Essay.  Part One Natural Polarities.  2. Feminine Figures - Nature Display'd.  3. Nature's Powers: A Reading of the Distinction Between Creation and Production.  4. Melancholy Reflection: Constructing an Identity for Unveilers of Nature.  5. The Authoritarian Response: The French Revolution and the Enlightenment.  Part Two Body Management.  6. The Popularization of Medicine: Tissot on Onanism.  7. Medical Mediations: Mind, Body and the Guillotine.  8. Guarding the Body Politic: Volney's Catechism of 1793.  9. Policing Public Health in France 1780-1815.  Part Three Family Values.  10. Naturalizing the Family : Literature and the Bio-medical Sciences of the Late Eighteenth Century.  11. Gender, Generation and Science: William Hunter's Obstetric Atlas.  12. Cultures of Kinship.  Footnotes.  Bibliography.  Index.