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Author: Alanna Skuse
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-02-18
Total Pages: 211
ISBN-13: 1108843611
DOWNLOAD EBOOKImplements stories of surgical alteration to consider how early modern individuals conceived the relationship between body, mind, and self.
Author: Alanna Skuse
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-02-18
Total Pages: 211
ISBN-13: 1108911501
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffering an innovative perspective on early modern debates concerning embodiment, Alanna Skuse examines diverse kinds of surgical alteration, from mastectomy to castration, and amputation to facial reconstruction. Body-altering surgeries had profound socio-economic and philosophical consequences. They reached beyond the physical self, and prompted early modern authors to develop searching questions about the nature of body integrity and its relationship to the soul: was the body a part of one's identity, or a mere 'prison' for the mind? How was the body connected to personal morality? What happened to the altered body after death? Drawing on a wide variety of texts including medical treatises, plays, poems, newspaper reports and travel writings, this volume will argue the answers to these questions were flexible, divergent and often surprising, and helped to shape early modern thoughts on philosophy, literature, and the natural sciences. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Author: Elizabeth L. Swann
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-10-15
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 1108487653
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPioneering investigation into relationship between physical sense of taste, and taste as a term denoting judgement, in early modern England.
Author: E. Decamp
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-06-15
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 1137471565
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThrough its rich foray into popular literary culture and medical history, this book investigates representations of regular and irregular medical practice in early modern England. Focusing on the prolific figures of the barber, surgeon and barber-surgeon, the author explores what it meant to the early modern population for a group of practitioners to be associated with both the trade guilds and an emerging professional medical world. The book uncovers the differences and cross-pollinations between barbers and surgeons' practices which play out across the literature: we learn not only about their cultural, civic, medical and occupational histories but also about how we should interpret patterns in language, name choice, performance, materiality, acoustics and semiology in the period. The investigations prompt new readings of Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton and Beaumont, among others. And with chapters delving into early modern representations of medical instruments, hairiness, bloodletting procedures, waxy or infected ears, wart removals and skeletons, readers will find much of the contribution of this book is in its detail, which brings its subject to life.
Author: Alanna Skuse
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-11-11
Total Pages: 373
ISBN-13: 1137487534
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is open access under a CC-BY licence. Cancer is perhaps the modern world's most feared disease. Yet, we know relatively little about this malady's history before the nineteenth century. This book provides the first in-depth examination of perceptions of cancerous disease in early modern England. Looking to drama, poetry and polemic as well as medical texts and personal accounts, it contends that early modern people possessed an understanding of cancer which remains recognizable to us today. Many of the ways in which medical practitioners and lay people imagined cancer – as a 'woman's disease' or a 'beast' inside the body – remain strikingly familiar, and they helped to make this disease a byword for treachery and cruelty in discussions of religion, culture and politics. Equally, cancer treatments were among the era's most radical medical and surgical procedures. From buttered frog ointments to agonizing and dangerous surgeries, they raised abiding questions about the nature of disease and the proper role of the medical practitioner.
Author: Apáti-Nagy Éva Viktória
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Published: 2013
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Lynda Payne
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-11-10
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781138257177
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe practice of medicine in the days before the development of anaesthetics could often be a brutal and painful experience. Many procedures, especially those involving surgery, must have proved almost as distressing to the doctor as to the patient. Yet in order to cure, the medical practitioner was often required to inflict pain and the patient to endure it. Some level of detachment has always been required of the doctor and especially, of the surgeon. It is the construction of this detachment, or dispassion, in early modern England, with which this work is concerned. The book explores the idea of medical dispassion and shows how practitioners developed the intellectual, verbal and manual skill of being able to replace passion with equanimity and distance. As the skill of 'dispassion' became more widespread it was both enthusiastically promoted and vehemently attacked by scientific and literary writers throughout the early modern period. To explain why the practice was so controversial and aroused such furor, this study takes into account not only patterns of medical education and clinical practice but wider debates concerning social, philosophical and religious ideas.
Author: Katharine A. Craik
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-02-07
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 1107028000
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShakespearean Sensations explores the ways Shakespeare and his contemporaries imagined literature affecting audiences' bodies, minds and emotions.
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Published: 1995
Total Pages: 521
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Bonnie Lander
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2018-05-04
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 0812250214
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBlood Matters explores blood as a distinct category of inquiry in medieval and early modern Europe and draws together scholars who might not otherwise be in conversation.
