Heidi Hausse
The Malleable Body: Surgeons, Artisans, and Amputees in Early Modern Germany
The Malleable Body: Surgeons, Artisans, and Amputees in Early Modern Germany
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Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 288 pages
Publication date: 03 June 2025
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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. -- .
Weight: 409g
Dimension: 234 x 156 x 16 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781526190833
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