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Bates draws upon his own experience of diagnosis of birth defects to summarise more than two hundred original descriptions of monstrous births and compare them with modern diagnostic categories.Įmblematic Monsters is an up-to-date approach to a classical yet under-explored subject: gruesome, compelling and monstrous.Copyright 2017, The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) The author(s) has/have asserted their right(s) to be identified as the author(s) of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. By approaching accounts of monstrous births not only as a literary form but also as descriptions of real-life cases, similarities between the pre-scientific recording of wonders and the scientific case report can be explored. Emblematic Monsters: Unnatural Conceptions and Deformed Births in Early Modern Europe (Clio Medica 77) ISBN-13: 9789042018624 Edition: 1 Publisher: Editions. Representations of monsters are considered in the context of their roles as wonders and emblems, and studies of the anatomy of monsters are discussed along with contemporary theories of their origin. Emblematic Monsters is a social history of monstrous births as seen through popular print, scholarly books and the proceedings of learned societies.
This book joins a growing literature on monstrous births in early modern Europe. Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine. In early modern Europe, monstrous births were significant events that were seen alive by many people, and dissected, embalmed and collected after death. Emblematic Monsters: Unnatural Conceptions and Deformed Births in Early Modern Europe.
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