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Surgery and selfhood in early modern England : = altered bodies and contexts of identity /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Surgery and selfhood in early modern England :/ Alanna Skuse, University of Reading.
Reminder of title:	altered bodies and contexts of identity /
Author:	Skuse, Alanna,
Description:	1 online resource (vii, 201 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 22 Feb 2021).
Subject:	Surgery - History. - Europe -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108919395
ISBN:	9781108919395 (ebook)

Surgery and selfhood in early modern England : = altered bodies and contexts of identity /
Skuse, Alanna,1986-

Surgery and selfhood in early modern England :altered bodies and contexts of identity /Alanna Skuse, University of Reading. - 1 online resource (vii, 201 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 22 Feb 2021).

Open Access title.

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. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

ISBN: 9781108919395 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

1444477
Surgery
--History.--Europe

LC Class. No.: RD27 / .S48 2021

Dewey Class. No.: 617.094

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