| Description |
1 online resource (1 PDF file (vii, 201 pages)) : illustrations |
| Contents |
The Instrumental Body : Castrati -- Invisible Women : Altered Female Bodies -- Second-Hand Faces : Aesthetic Surgery -- Acting the Part : Prosthetic Limbs -- 'Recompact My Scattered Parts' : the Altered Body after Death -- Phantom Limbs and the Hard Problem |
| Summary |
Offering an innovative perspective on early modern debates concerning embodiment, Alanna Skuse examines diverse kinds of surgical alteration, from mastectomy to castration, and amputation to facial reconstruction. Body-altering surgeries had profound socio-economic and philosophical consequences. They reached beyond the physical self, and prompted early modern authors to develop searching questions about the nature of body integrity and its relationship to the soul: was the body a part of one's identity, or a mere 'prison' for the mind? How was the body connected to personal morality? What happened to the altered body after death? Drawing on a wide variety of texts including medical treatises, plays, poems, newspaper reports and travel writings, this volume will argue the answers to these questions were flexible, divergent and often surprising, and helped to shape early modern thoughts on philosophy, literature, and the natural sciences |
| Analysis |
Literature, Renaissance and Early Modern Literature, British History after 1450, History |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed Sept. 27, 2021) |
| Subject |
English -- Surgery -- History
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Surgery -- England -- History
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Body image -- England -- History
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Mind and body -- England -- History
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Identity (Psychology) -- England -- History
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General Surgery -- history
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Body Image -- psychology
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Mind-Body Relations, Metaphysical
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History, Early Modern 1451-1600
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Body image
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Identity (Psychology)
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Mind and body
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Surgery
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| SUBJECT |
England https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D004739 |
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England
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| Genre/Form |
Open educational resources
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2020040210 |
| ISBN |
9781108919395 |
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1108919391 |
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