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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. -- .
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. -- .
What is a face and how does it relate to personhood? Approaching
Facial Difference: Past and Present offers an interdisciplinary
exploration of the many ways in which faces have been represented
in the past and present, focusing on the issue of facial difference
and disfigurement read in the light of shifting ideas of beauty and
ugliness. Faces are central to all human social interactions, yet
their study has been much overlooked by disability scholars and
historians of medicine alike. By examining the main linguistic,
visual and material approaches to the face from antiquity to
contemporary times, contributors place facial diversity at the
heart of our historical and cultural narratives. This cutting-edge
collection of essays will be an invaluable resource for humanities
scholars working across history, literature and visual culture, as
well as modern practitioners in education and psychology.
What is a face and how does it relate to personhood? Approaching
Facial Difference: Past and Present offers an interdisciplinary
exploration of the many ways in which faces have been represented
in the past and present, focusing on the issue of facial difference
and disfigurement read in the light of shifting ideas of beauty and
ugliness. Faces are central to all human social interactions, yet
their study has been much overlooked by disability scholars and
historians of medicine alike. By examining the main linguistic,
visual and material approaches to the face from antiquity to
contemporary times, contributors place facial diversity at the
heart of our historical and cultural narratives. This cutting-edge
collection of essays will be an invaluable resource for humanities
scholars working across history, literature and visual culture, as
well as modern practitioners in education and psychology.
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