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 (Autore)
Natura: eBook Elettronico
Lingua:English
Imprint: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2023.
Serie:Social histories of medicine.
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Accesso online:Click here for full text at Project MUSE
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Riassunto: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 moments in which decisions to operate were made. Importantly, it teases out surgeons' ideas about the body embedded in their technical instructions. This unique study also explores the material culture of mechanical hands that amputees commissioned locksmiths, clockmakers, and other artisans to create, revealing their roles in developing a new prosthetic technology. Over two centuries of surgical and artisanal interventions emerged a growing perception, fundamental to biomedicine today, that humans could alter the body -- that it was malleable.
This invaluable study reveals how practices for treating the loss of limbs in early modern Germany transformed western medicine. From amputations to mechanical arms, surgical and artisanal interventions forged a growing perception, fundamental to biomedicine today, that humans could alter the body--that it was malleable.
Descrizione del documento:Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 11, 2023).
Descrizione fisica:1 online resource: illustrations (colour).
ISBN:9781526160669
1526160668
9781526160645
1526160641
Note sull'autore:Heidi Hausse is Assistant Professor of History at Auburn University