RADHIKA GOVINDRAJAN. Animal Intimacies: Interspecies Relatedness in India’s Central Himalayas. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 2018

Sarah Kay, Animal Skins and the Reading Self in Medieval Latin and French Bestiaries (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2017), $49.00, hardback/ebook, ISBN: 9780226436739 / 9780226436876.

works as Gyatso’s narrative strategy to capture her readers’ attention. She thus first places her main protagonist, Desi, and his medical legacy within the broader late seventeenthcentury political world in which he was a key player. She then disentangles the various ‘bones of contention’ and ‘roots of the profession’ that Desi inherited from his medical predecessors. The final chapter on the ‘...

Elizabeth Hallam, Anatomy Museum: Death and the Body Displayed (Chicago, IL, and London: University of Chicago Press, 2016), pp. 444, $57.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-86189-375-8.

hospital she had booked into. She was shaved, enema-ed, and wheeled into the labour ward, a huge room with beds of screaming women, separated by curtains and with students checking them. After the birth she was wheeled into a corridor for a day or two until a bed in a ward became available. She only had contact with her baby at feeding times, she was in bed for nine days, home on the tenth, ‘wi...

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