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Surgery and selfhood in early modern England : Altered bodies and contexts of identity (2021)

Skuse, Alanna (Author)

Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 2021
Language: English

ISBN: 9781108843614

Publication Date: 2021
Physical Details: 201

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Identity Embodiment; corporeality Surgery Medicine Early modern England

Offering 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.

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Review Kristy Wilson Bowers (Spring 2023) Review of "Surgery and selfhood in early modern England : Altered bodies and contexts of identity". Renaissance Quarterly (pp. 361-362). unapi

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