Name: Surgery and Selfhood in Early Modern England: Altered Bodies and Contexts of Identity (en Inglés)
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Author: Skuse, Alanna
ISBN: 9781108826181

portada Surgery and Selfhood in Early Modern England: Altered Bodies and Contexts of Identity (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Alanna Skuse

Editorial

Cambridge University Press

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

209

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

22.9 x 15.2 x 1.1 cm

Peso

0.29 kg.

ISBN13

9781108826181

Categorías

Irlanda
Reino unido
Historia y crítica literaria
Cirugía

Surgery and Selfhood in Early Modern England: Altered Bodies and Contexts of Identity (en Inglés)

Alanna Skuse (Autor) · Cambridge University Press · Tapa Blanda

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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.