The malleable body : surgeons, artisans, and amputees in early modern Germany
Hausse, Heidi.
The malleable body : surgeons, artisans, and amputees in early modern Germany Heidi Hausse - 1st ed. - Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2023. ©2023. - 1 online resource (288 pages) - Social histories of medicin ; v.52 . - Social Histories of Medicine Series .
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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.
9781526160669
Prothetik
Amputation
Deutschland
Fernzugriff
The malleable body : surgeons, artisans, and amputees in early modern Germany Heidi Hausse - 1st ed. - Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2023. ©2023. - 1 online resource (288 pages) - Social histories of medicin ; v.52 . - Social Histories of Medicine Series .
E-Book-ProQuest / Fernzugriff nach Registrierung möglich
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.
9781526160669
Prothetik
Amputation
Deutschland
Fernzugriff