Surgery and Selfhood in Early Modern England

ISBN-13: 9781108826181 / Miękka / 2023 / 209 str.

Alanna (University of Reading) Skuse

Opis

Implements stories of surgical alteration to consider how early modern individuals conceived the relationship between body, mind, and self.

Recenzje

'This is a valuable, well-researched examination of how altered bodies disrupted ideas about the self within an early modern Christian context. Recommended. Graduate students and faculty'. B. Lowe, Choice

Spis treści

1. The Instrumental Body: Castrati; 2. Invisible Women: Altered Female Bodies; 3. Second-hand Faces: Aesthetic Surgery; 4. Acting the Part: Prosthetic Limbs; 5. 'Recompact My Scattered Parts': The Altered Body after Death; 6. Phantom Limbs and the Hard Problem.