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Surgery and Selfhood in Early Modern England - Altered Bodies and Contexts of Identity (Paperback)
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Surgery and Selfhood in Early Modern England - Altered Bodies and Contexts of Identity (Paperback)
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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.
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