The Malleable Body : Surgeons, Artisans, and Amputees in Early Modern Germany

by Heidi Hausse

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Format Paperback / Softback

Book Series Social Histories of Medicine

ISBN-10 1526190834

ISBN-13 9781526190833

Publisher Manchester University Press

Imprint Manchester University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jun 3rd, 2025

Print length 288 Pages

Weight 434 grams

Dimensions 15.60 x 23.40 x 1.90 cms

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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. -- .

This book uses amputation and prostheses to tell a new story about medicine and embodied knowledge-making in early modern Europe. It draws on the writings of craft surgeons and learned physicians to follow the heated debates that arose from changing practices of removing limbs, uncovering tense moments in which decisions to operate were made. Importantly, it teases out surgeons ideas about the body embedded in their technical instructions. This unique study also explores the material culture of mechanical hands that amputees commissioned locksmiths, clockmakers, and other artisans to create, revealing their roles in developing a new prosthetic technology. Over two centuries of surgical and artisanal interventions emerged a growing perception, fundamental to biomedicine today, that humans could alter the body that it was malleable.

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