Purity and Pollution: Gender, Embodiment and Victorian MedicineLike medical knowledge and practice itself, most medical histories are fascinated with the bodies of patients. Bashford examines practitioners of medicine, as well as patients, as embodied and sexed subjects. She brings together recent cultural and feminist theories on the body, nineteenth century medical history and the history of gender and Victorian feminism. Purity and Pollution is a cultural history which investigates the ways in which many