Malleable Body
Hausse Heidi
9781526160652
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| Author(s) :- Hausse Heidi | Format :- Hardback |
| Publisher :- Manchester University Press | Pub. Date :- 2023-04-25 |
| ISBN-13 :- 9781526160652 | |
| Series:- Social Histories of Medicine | |
| Pagination :- 288 pages, 33 colour illustrations | |
| Dimensions :- 162 x 241 x 23 | |
| Weight :- 728 |
Description
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. -- .
