The Malleable Body. Surgeons, Artisans, and Amputees in Early Modern Germany, Hardback - ***
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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. -- .
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Illustration(s): 33 colour illustrations
- Number of pages: 288
- Collection: Social Histories of Medicine
- Publication date: 2023
- Dimensions: 162 x 241 x 23
- Cover type: Hardback
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