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International Journal of Epidemiology 2002;31:698-699
© International Epidemiological Association 2002

Book Review

Bodies Politic: Disease, Death and Doctors in Britain, 1650–1900. R Porter, London: Reaktion Books 2001, pp. 304, £25. ISBN 1-86189-094-X.

Mary Shaw

Social scientists, or at least a subset of them, have recently become more interested in the visual, in both theoretical and methodological terms.1,2 This may be due to a realisation that we live in what Jay refers to as an increasingly ‘ocularcentric’ world3—where the image is central to contemporary Western life. As Porter's ‘select bibliography’ at the end of his book suggests, the study of images in their historical context, and in relation to science . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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