The human body is the most fraught and fascinating, talked-about and taboo, unique yet universal fact of our lives. It i
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A Cultural History of The Human Body presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. This set of six
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The human body was revolutionised in the 20th Century. Developments in politics, sexuality, technology, and culture all
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The Christian, Jewish, and Muslim communities of medieval western Europe conceived of the human body in manifold ways. T
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Icons of Life tells the engrossing and provocative story of an early twentieth-century undertaking, the Carnegie Institu
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A compelling history of British imperial culture, showing how it was adopted and subverted by colonial subjects around t
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