Concerning Sex Changes: The Cultural Significance of a Renaissance Medical Polemic

This article examines the medical literature of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries concerning the sexual transmutation of females into males. One explanation for the phenomenon, the so-called one-sex model attributed to Aristotle, does not figure prominently in the writings of the early p...

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Main Author: Beecher, Donald (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, Inc. 2005
In: The sixteenth century journal
Year: 2005, Volume: 36, Issue: 4, Pages: 991-1016
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