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Author(s) :- Hausse Heidi | Format :- Paperback |
Publisher :- Manchester University Press | Pub. Date :- 2025-06-03 |
ISBN-13 :- 9781526190833 | |
Series:- Social Histories of Medicine | |
Pagination :- 288 pages, 33 colour illustrations | |
Dimensions :- 234 x 156 x 16 | |
Weight :- 409 |
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. -- .