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oapen-20.500.12657-566722022-06-08T02:56:58Z Surgery and Selfhood in Early Modern England Skuse, Alanna Literature, Renaissance and Early Modern Literature, British History after 1450, History bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History Offering an innovative perspective on debates concerning embodiment in the early modern period, 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 that 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. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core. 2022-06-07T13:57:18Z 2022-06-07T13:57:18Z 2021 book 9781108843614 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/56672 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Surgery_and_Selfhood_in_Early_Modern_England.pdf www.cambridge.org/9781108843614 Cambridge University Press 10.1017/9781108919395 10.1017/9781108919395 7607a2d0-47af-490f-9d2a-8c9340266f8a d859fbd3-d884-4090-a0ec-baf821c9abfd 9781108843614 Wellcome 212 H5213000 Wellcome Trust Wellcome open access
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Offering an innovative perspective on debates concerning embodiment
in the early modern period, 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 that 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. This title is also available as
Open Access on Cambridge Core.
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