The Gym Tonic aerobics programme heralded the advent of a new politics of the female body
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In 19th century Belgium, post-mortem caesarean section turned into a politicized debate.
In 1852 the criminalisation of abortion is reaffirmed after the Academy of Medicine arrived at a resolution regarding therapeutic abortion.
From the outset, the measurement of intelligence was as much a scientific as an eminently political endeavour.
A body enhancing aesthetic practice, tattooing pertained, in the 19th century, to the world of crime and social deviance.
