Introduction

An introduction to the dissertation, this chapter describes how media studies can be applied to the history of medicine. To do this, it describes how the broad term specimen--or object extracted from a naturally occurring body or phenomenon--can be used to think about the extractive practices central western epistemics.

Section: 1: Specimen Studies

Defining the major theories and ideas that guide this study, this section argues for how media studies can frame and discuss problems in the history of medicine.

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Section: 2: Methods

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Section: 3: The Structure of this Dissertation

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