Challenging histories of plastic surgery that posit a complete
disappearance of Gaspare Tagliacozzi's rhinoplasty operation after
his death in 1599, Rhinoplasty and the nose in early modern British
medicine and culture traces knowledge of the procedure within the
early modern British medical community, through to its impact on
the nineteenth-century revival of skin-flap facial surgeries. The
book explores why such a procedure was controversial, and the
cultural importance of the nose, offering critical readings of
literary noses from Shakespeare to Laurence Sterne. Medical
knowledge of the graft operation was accompanied by a spurious
story that the nose would be constructed from flesh purchased from
a social inferior, and would drop off when that person died. The
volume therefore explores this narrative in detail for its role in
the procedure's stigmatisation, its engagement with the doctrine of
medical sympathy, and its unique attempt to commoditise living
human flesh. -- .
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