The Malleable Body: Surgeons, Artisans, and Amputees in Early Modern Germany (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk) af Heidi Hausse

The Malleable Body: Surgeons, Artisans, and Amputees in Early Modern Germany

(Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Forfatter: Heidi Hausse

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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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Forlag Manchester University Press
Forfatter Heidi Hausse
Type Bog
Format Hardback
Sprog Engelsk
Udgivelsesdato 25-04-2023
Første udgivelsesår 2023
Serie Social Histories of Medicine
Illustrationer 33 colour illustrations
Originalsprog United Kingdom
Sideantal 288
Indbinding Hardback
Forlag Manchester University Press
Sideoplysninger 288 pages, 33 colour illustrations
Mål 162 x 241 x 23
ISBN-13 / EAN-13 9781526160652