Prosthetics of Order

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  • Sander Gilman
    Making the Body Beautiful: A Cultural History of Aesthetic Surgery. Princeton University Press
  • Cynthia Davis
    Bodily and Narrative Forms: The Influence of Medicine on American Literature 1845-1915. Stanford University Press
Reviewed by Ulrich Teucher
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This review “Prosthetics of Order” originally appeared in Archives and History. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 178 (Autumn 2003): 132-133.

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