Exceptional Bodies in Early Modern Culture: Concepts of Monstrosity Before the Advent of the Normal

Maja Bondestam ============== Maja Bondestam is an Associate Professor in History of Science and Ideas at Uppsala University. Her research is focused on the body in the shift from the early modern to the modern period and on medicine and natural history. Bondestam has published books and articles on themes including politics of the maturing body, the history of the Swedish hermaphrodite, botanical classification, the language of Carl Linnaeus, and gendered norms in medical advice literature.