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Colonizing the Womb: How William Hunter’s Enlightenment-Era Gynecological Images Redefined Personhood

Kirwan, Jessica

"Synapsis: A Health Humanities Journal" was founded in 2017 by Arden Hegele, a literary scholar, and Rishi Goyal, a physician. Its mission is to develop conversations among diverse people thinking about medical and humanistic ways of knowing ... as a “Department Without Walls” that connects scholars and thinkers from different spheres.

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