Eighteenth-century natural historians created a peculiar, and peculiarly durable, vision of nature--one that embodied the sexual and racial tensions of that era

How do we understand the agency and significance of material forces and their interface with human bodies? What does it mean to be human in these times, with bo

"Highly informative and remarkably entertaining." —Elle From forest trails in Korea, to islands in Finland, to eucalyptus groves in California, Florence Willi

Examines the working of the separate systems that make up the human body.