The Malleable Body
Surgeons, Artisans, and Amputees in Early Modern Germany
Social Histories of Medicine
- Format: Innbundet
- Antall sider: 352
- Språk: Engelsk
- Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
- Serienavn: Social Histories of Medicine
- EAN: 9781526160652
- Utgivelsesår: 2023
- Bidragsyter: Hausse, Heidi
719,-
This valuable study reveals how hands-on practices to treat 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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