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“... medical treatises and descriptions of past eras against this reality is an unproblematic exercise. Barbara Duden argues strongly that this is a simplistic view which, at the very least, makes it impossible for us to understand either the medical practice of the past or the changing ways in which the body has been experienced; it also blinds us to the fact ...”

“... of China and Japan to those of Melanesia and the Aztecs. The bibliography, compiled by Barbara Duden, leaves no doubt as to the vast quantity of published work bearing directly on the social construction of the body. Yet if one stops to ask in what sense the body is socially constructed no precise answer is forthcoming from these three ...”