In “Immaculate Forms ”, classicist and historian Helen King examines the symbiotic relationship between religion and medicine, as well as their shared history of controlling the key organs that have been used to define “woman”. She illustrates how ideas about the female body owe more to imagination and myth than to observation and science. Throughout history, the way we understand the body has always been a subject of debate, and it continues to be shaped by human intervention and interpreted according to cultural circumstances.
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