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 -- .


Format Inbunden Omfång 288 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Manchester University Press Utgivningsdatum 2023-04-25 ISBN 9781526160652