The Malleable Body: Surgeons, Artisans, And Amputees In Early Modern Germany (Social Histories Of Medicine, 52)

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.

• | Author: Heidi Hausse
• | Publisher: Manchester University Press
• | Publication Date: Apr 25, 2023
• | Number of Pages: 288 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 152616065X
• | ISBN-13: 9781526160652