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Anxieties of Interiority and Dissection in Early Modern Spain (Toronto Iberic)
Anxieties of Interiority and Dissection in Early Modern Spain brings the study of Europes culture of dissection to the Iberian peninsula, presenting a neglected episode in the development of the modern concept of the self. Enrique Fernandez explores the ways in which sixteenth and seventeenth-century anatomical research stimulated both a sense of interiority and a fear of that interiors exposure and punishment by the early modern state. Read more