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Vagina Obscura - Rachel E. Gross

Vagina Obscura

An Anatomical Voyage

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
352 Seiten
2023
WW Norton & Co (Verlag)
978-1-324-05053-7 (ISBN)
CHF 24,40 inkl. MwSt
Longlisted for the 2023 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction

A New York Times Editors' Choice

A Science Friday Best Science Book to Read This Summer

A myth-busting voyage into the female body
A camera obscura reflects the world back but dimmer and inverted. Similarly, science has long viewed woman through a warped lens, one focused narrowly on her capacity for reproduction. As a result, there exists a vast knowledge gap when it comes to what we know about half of the bodies on the planet.

That is finally changing. Today, a new generation of researchers is turning its gaze to the organs traditionally bound up in baby-making—the uterus, ovaries and vagina—and illuminating them as part of a dynamic, resilient and ever-changing whole. Welcome to Vagina Obscura, an odyssey into a woman’s body from a fresh perspective, ushering in a whole new cast of characters.

In Boston, a pair of biologists are growing artificial ovaries to counter the cascading health effects of menopause. In Melbourne, a urologist remaps the clitoris to fill in crucial gaps in female sexual anatomy. Given unparalleled access to labs and the latest research, journalist Rachel E. Gross takes readers on a scientific journey to the centre of a wonderous world where the uterus regrows itself, ovaries pump out fresh eggs and the clitoris pulses beneath the surface like a shimmering pyramid of nerves.

This paradigm shift is made possible by the growing understanding that sex and gender are not binary; we all share the same universal body plan and origin in the womb. That’s why insights into the vaginal microbiome, ovarian stem cells and the biology of menstruation don’t mean only a better understanding of female bodies, but a better understanding of male, non-binary, transgender and intersex bodies—in other words, all bodies.

By turns funny, lyrical, incisive and shocking, Vagina Obscura is a powerful testament to how the landscape of human knowledge can be rewritten to better serve everyone.

Rachel E. Gross is an award-winning science journalist based in Brooklyn, New York. A former Knight Science Journalism Fellow and digital science editor of Smithsonian Magazine, she writes for BBC Future, the New York Times, and Scientific American.

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 9 illustrations
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 211 mm
Gewicht 275 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte
Studium 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) Anatomie / Neuroanatomie
Studium 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) Physiologie
Naturwissenschaften Biologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
ISBN-10 1-324-05053-5 / 1324050535
ISBN-13 978-1-324-05053-7 / 9781324050537
Zustand Neuware
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