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The Imposteress Rabbit Breeder Mary Toft And Eighteenthcentury England Karen Harvey

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The Imposteress Rabbit Breeder Mary Toft And Eighteenthcentury England Karen Harvey
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Publisher: OUP Oxford
File Extension: EPUB
File size: 3.2 MB
Author: Karen Harvey
ISBN: 9780191054082, 0191054089
Language: English
Year: 2019

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The Imposteress Rabbit Breeder Mary Toft And Eighteenthcentury England Karen Harvey by Karen Harvey 9780191054082, 0191054089 instant download after payment.

In October 1726, newspapers began reporting a remarkable event. In the town of Godalming in Surrey, a woman called Mary Toft had started to give birth to rabbits. Several leading doctors—some sent directly by King George I—travelled to examine the woman and she was moved to London to be closer to them. By December, she had been accused of fraud and taken into custody. Mary Toft's unusual deliveries caused a media sensation. Her rabbit births were a test case for doctors trying to further their knowledge about the processes of reproduction and pregnancy. The rabbit births prompted not just public curiosity and scientific investigation, but also a vicious backlash. Based on extensive new archival research, this book is the first in-depth re-telling of this extraordinary story. Karen Harvey situates the rabbit-births within the troubled community of Godalming and the women who remained close to Mary Toft as the case unfolded, exploring the motivations of the medics who...

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