The Malleable Body
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| ISBN | 9781526160652 |
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| Publisher | Manchester University Press |
| Price (excl. tax) | €82.92 |
| Tax | €4.98 |
| Price (incl. tax) | €87.90 |
| Availability | 1 unit in external warehouse |
Product Description
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—that it was malleable. -- .