PerceptionsScience

How did discourses of science inform the understanding of the body in the early twentieth century?

Due to extensive political reforms and uncertainty, a feeling of social dislocation was created among the early twentieth-century population. In search of stability, people turned to science and it quickly became a mirror and a corrective to society’s lifestyle and body image. As a result, numerous outlines of Darwinism and materialistic biology initially intended to…