Review ID: CBB181374979

Review of "Rhinoplasty and the Nose in Early Modern British Medicine and Culture" (2020)

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In the past 4 years, three books have been published touching on Tagliacozzi’s surgical method for restoring noses which placed it in both the histories of medicine and masculinity in the early modern period (by Valeria Finucci, Emily Cock, and myself). It is not easy to tell what it is so interesting about Tagliacozzi for contemporary historians, but I could not resist opening this review by remarking upon this convergence of interests of scholars largely unrelated to one another.Cock’s book falls in between medical history and the cultural and intellectual history of the body or, more precisely, of the face (a rather neglected aspect of the history of the body, as the author correctly argues). The book explores in depth the history of a misunderstanding: while Tagliacozzi never advocated for allografts (restoration of mutilated noses through skin flaps taken from the body of another human being), paradoxically his popularity and his legacy for the next two centuries after his death (1599) were inextricably linked to this medical, literary and satirical trope. Therefore, the focus is not on the actual practice of the procedure, but on the debates it sparked for two centuries before the nineteenth.

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Book Emily Cock; David Cantor; Keir Waddington (2019) Rhinoplasty and the Nose in Early Modern British Medicine and Culture. unapi

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