The Gym Tonic aerobics programme heralded the advent of a new politics of the female body
The naturalness of breast feeding has been subordinated to a political idea of the Nation asserted in an explicit hierarchisation of class and race.
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.
The term psychedelic was coined to refer to psychotic substances explored for use in psychiatry, but which remain under strict control
A body enhancing aesthetic practice, tattooing pertained, in the 19th century, to the world of crime and social deviance.
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The truth serum is not just a fantasy, the stuff of science-fiction, it is also a political and medical instrument.Screenshot from Franju, La Tête contre les murs. The truth serum is not just a fantasy...
Around 1900, a vegetarian movement was organized in France to resolve the social question.
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