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Appel, Toby A. The Cuvier-Geoffroy debate: French biology in the decades before Darwin. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.

Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome, editor. Monster theory: Reading culture. Minneapolis, Minn.: University of Minnesota Press, 1996.

Daston, Lorraine and Katharine Park. Wonders and the order of nature, 1150-1750. New York: Zone Books, 1998.

Garland, Robert. The eye of the beholder: Deformity and disability in the Graeco-Roman world. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1995.

Helman, Cecil. The body of Frankenstein's monster: Essays in myth and medicine. New York: Norton, 1992.

Kampf, Klaus. Teratologie als Vorstufe einer Entwicklungsgeschichte: A. W. Otto (1786-1845) und sein "Museum monstrorum" Breslau 1841. Koln: Forschungsstelle des Instituts fur Geschichte der Medizin der Universitat zu Koln; Feuchtwangen: Alleinvertrieb, C.-E. Kohlhauer, 1987.

Paré, Ambroise, 1510-1590. On monsters and marvels. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983.

Purcell, Rosamond. Special cases: Natural anomalies and historical monsters. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1997.

Siraisi, Nancy G. The clock and the mirror: Girolamo Cardano and Renaissance medicine. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1997.

Thomson, Rosemarie Garland. Extraordinary bodies: Figuring physical disability in America culture and literature. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.

Todd, Dennis. Imagining monsters: Miscreations of the self in eighteenth-century England. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.

Wilson, Dudley. Signs and portents : Monstrous births from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment. London; New York : Routledge, 1993.

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