The Prince's Body : : Vincenzo Gonzaga and Renaissance Medicine / / Valeria Finucci.
Defining the proper female body, seeking elective surgery for beauty, enjoying lavish spa treatments, and combating impotence might seem like today’s celebrity infatuations. However, these preoccupations were very much alive in the early modern period. Valeria Finucci recounts the story of a well-kn...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (260 p.) :; 17 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Introduction. Staging the Body
- 1. The Virgin Cure Manual Exams and Early Modern Surgeons
- 2. The Aesthetic Cure Skin Disease, Noses, and the Invention of Plastic Surgery
- 3. The Comfort Cure Managing Pain and Catarrh at the Spa
- 4. The Sexual Cure Searching for a Viagra in the New World
- Epilogue Unwrapping the Body
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Index