Surgery and Selfhood in Early Modern England

Surgery and Selfhood in Early Modern England

Altered Bodies and Contexts of Identity

Skuse, Alanna

Cambridge University Press

02/2021

220

Dura

Inglês

9781108843614

15 a 20 dias

430

Descrição não disponível.
1. The Instrumental Body: Castrati; 2. Invisible Women: Altered Female Bodies; 3. Second-hand Faces: Aesthetic Surgery; 4. Acting the Part: Prosthetic Limbs; 5. 'Recompact My Scattered Parts': The Altered Body after Death; 6. Phantom Limbs and the Hard Problem.
Surgery; Prosthetics; Disability; Identity; Medicine; Resurrection; Shakespeare; Donne; Descartes; Mastectomy