Rhinoplasty and the nose in early modern British medicine and culture (eBook)

Emily Cock (Autor)

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2019
320 Seiten
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-3718-0 (ISBN)

Infos

This book explores early modern British responses to nose reconstruction, and the concerns and possibilities raised by rumoured nose transplants.

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Challenging histories of plastic surgery that posit a complete disappearance of Gaspare Tagliacozzi’s rhinoplasty operation after his death in 1599, Rhinoplasty and the nose in early modern British medicine and culture traces knowledge of the procedure within the early modern British medical community, through to its impact on the nineteenth-century revival of skin-flap facial surgeries. The book explores why such a procedure was controversial, and the cultural importance of the nose, offering critical readings of literary noses from Shakespeare to Laurence Sterne. Medical knowledge of the graft operation was accompanied by a spurious story that the nose would be constructed from flesh purchased from a social inferior, and would drop off when that person died. The volume therefore explores this narrative in detail for its role in the procedure’s stigmatisation, its engagement with the doctrine of medical sympathy, and its unique attempt to commoditise living human flesh.

Autor

Emily Cock is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow in the Department of History at Cardiff University

Inhalt

List of figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: To Supply the Scandalous Want of that Obvious Part
1 Reading and feigning faces
2 Taliacotian rhinoplasty
3 The circulation of surgical knowledge
4 Satirising sympathy
5 Dear flesh: noses on sale
Conclusion: Changing noses, changing fortunes
Works cited

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.9.2019
• Reihe/Serie: Social Histories of Medicine
• Mitarbeit: Herausgeber (Serie): David Cantor, Keir Waddington
• Zusatzinfo: 5 black & white illustrations
• Verlagsort: Manchester
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Chirurgie ► Ästhetische und Plastische Chirurgie
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
• Schlagworte: Culture • facial surgery • Gaspare Tagliacozzi • Great Britain • Literature • Medicine • Nineteenth-Century • nose • Plastic Surgery • Rhinoplasty • skin-flap • skin graft • Society
• ISBN-10: 1-5261-3718-6 / 1526137186
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5261-3718-0 / 9781526137180