Surgery and selfhood in early modern England : : altered bodies and contexts of identity / / Alanna Skuse, University of Reading.
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. Th...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : : Cambridge University Press,, 2021. |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vii, 201 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s). |
| Notes: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 22 Feb 2021). |
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