Recovering the felt body
 

Duden 87: "Medical history has taught us how to recognize, classify, and interpret these various therapeutic methods of past ages. But it is one thing to know the theory and technique of an age and something else to recover the felt body of that age."
 
90: "There is nothing in me that I have been trained to equate with the rumblings and threatening stagnations [patients of an earlier age] report"

> from Barbara Duden's Disembodying Women: Perspectives on Pregnancy and the Unborn (1993)

> tagged with #knowledge, #body, #medicine

> created January 14, 2026 at 8:54:16 AM


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