Heidi Hausse

Gebundenes Buch

The malleable body

Surgeons, artisans, and amputees in early modern Germany

Beschreibung

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 bodyâ that it was malleable. -- .

Autor

Heidi Hausse is Assistant Professor of History at Auburn University

Produktdetails

• Social Histories of Medicine
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. April 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 728g
• ISBN-13: 9781526160652
• ISBN-10: 152616065X
• Artikelnr.: 66123309