The malleable body : surgeons, artisans, and amputees in early modern Germany /

This book uses amputation and prostheses to tell a new story about medicine and embodied knowledge-making in early modern Europe. It draws on the writings of craft surgeons and learned physicians to follow the heated debates that arose from changing practices of removing limbs, uncovering tense mome...

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Author / Creator: Hausse, Heidi (Author)
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Imprint: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2023.
Series:Social histories of medicine.
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