The Malleable Body: Surgeons, Artisans, and Amputees in Early Modern Germany

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.

Author: Heidi Hausse
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 04/25/2023
Series: Social Histories of Medicine #52
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.59lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.10w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781526160652