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100	1		_aSkuse, Alanna, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aSurgery and Selfhood in Early Modern England : _bAltered Bodies and Contexts of Identity / _cAlanna Skuse.
246	3		_aSurgery & Selfhood in Early Modern England
264		1	_bCambridge University Press,
300			_a1 online resource _bdigital, PDF file(s).
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 12 Feb 2021).
520			_aOffering 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. 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 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.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9781108843614
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/9781108919395
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