Book ID: CBB211651279

The malleable body: Surgeons, artisans, and amputees in early modern Germany (2023)

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Hausse, Heidi (Author)


Manchester University Press


Publication Date: 2023
Physical Details: 288
Language: English

This book uses amputation and prostheses to tell a new story about medicine and embodied knowledge-making in early modern Europe. It draws on the writings of craft surgeons and learned physicians to follow the heated debates that arose from changing practices of removing limbs, uncovering tense moments in which decisions to operate were made. Importantly, it teases out surgeons’ ideas about the body embedded in their technical instructions. This unique study also explores the material culture of mechanical hands that amputees commissioned locksmiths, clockmakers, and other artisans to create, revealing their roles in developing a new prosthetic technology. Over two centuries of surgical and artisanal interventions emerged a growing perception, fundamental to biomedicine today, that humans could alter the body ― that it was malleable.

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Authors & Contributors
Crawford, Cassandra
Vollgraff, Matthew H.
Daniel Black
Hausse, Heidi
Astemir Shaikhaliev
Brenker, Fabian
Concepts
Physiotherapy; mechanotherapy; prosthetics
Surgery
Medicine
Human body
Medical technology
Orthopedics
Time Periods
19th century
Early modern
20th century
16th century
Renaissance
21st century
Places
Germany
Italy
Nuremberg (Germany)
United States
Netherlands
Spain
Institutions
Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg
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