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Gaspare Tagliacozzi and Early Modern Surgery - Faces, Men, and Pain (Hardcover)
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Gaspare Tagliacozzi and Early Modern Surgery - Faces, Men, and Pain (Hardcover)
Series: The Body in the City
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This book uses the work of Bolognese physician and anatomist
Gaspare Tagliacozzi to explore the social and cultural history of
early modern surgery. It discusses how Italian and European
surgeons' attitudes to health and beauty - and how patients' gender
- shaped views on the public appearance of the human body. In 1597,
Gaspare Tagliacozzi published a two-volume book on reconstructive
surgery of the mutilated parts of the face. Studying Tagliacozzi's
surgery in context corrects widespread views about the birth of
plastic surgery. Through a combination of cultural history,
microhistory, historical epistemology, and gender history, this
book describes the practice and practitioners considered to be at
the periphery of the "Scientific Revolution." Historical themes
covered include the writing of individual cases, hegemonic and
subaltern forms of masculinity, concepts of the natural and the
artificial, emotional communities and moral economies of pain, and
the historical anthropology of the culture of beauty and the face
and its disfigurements. The book is essential reading for
upper-level students, postgraduates, and scholars working on the
history of medicine and surgery, the history of the body, and
gender and cultural history. It will also appeal to those
interested in the history of beauty, urban studies and the
Renaissance period more generally.
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