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Book Review

Nymphomania: A History. By Carol Groneman. (New York: Norton, 2000. xxiv, 238 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-393-04838-1.)

Recent studies of cancer, tuberculosis, anorexia nervosa, and other maladies have richly illustrated the now commonplace notion that bodily afflictions are fashioned into diseases not only by science and medicine but also by culture. In many instances, scientists and doctors have been shown to be simultaneously powerful cultural theorists and policers of the boundaries of social order. Carol Groneman's Nymphomania is a commendable attempt to chart the social construction of an enigmatic disease. . . .

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