The malleable body : surgeons, artisans, and amputees in early modern Germany

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--...

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1. Verfasser:	Hausse, Heidi (VerfasserIn)
Format:	E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2023
Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel:	Social Histories of Medicine 52
Schlagworte:	Orthopedic surgery Human body and technology Medicine Extremities (Anatomy) Surgery History Amputation, Surgical Germany History of medicine
Umfang:	1 online resource (288 pages)