The Malleable Body : Surgeons, Artisans, and Amputees in Early Modern Germany
by
Heidi Hausse
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Social Histories of Medicine
ISBN-10
152616065X
ISBN-13
9781526160652
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Imprint
Manchester University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 25th, 2023
Print length
288 Pages
Weight
728 grams
Dimensions
16.20 x 24.10 x 2.30 cms
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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. -- .
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