Surgery and Selfhood in Early Modern England

by Alanna Skuse

Author	: Alanna Skuse
Publisher	: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages	: 211
Release	: 2021-02-18
Genre	: Literary Criticism
ISBN	: 1108911501

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Offering 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.

Surgery and Selfhood in Early Modern England

by Alanna Skuse

Author	: Alanna Skuse
Publisher	: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages	: 211
Release	: 2021-02-18
Genre	: History
ISBN	: 1108843611

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Implements stories of surgical alteration to consider how early modern individuals conceived the relationship between body, mind, and self.

Taste and Knowledge in Early Modern England

by Elizabeth L. Swann

Author	: Elizabeth L. Swann
Publisher	: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages	: 281
Release	: 2020-10-15
Genre	: History
ISBN	: 1108487653

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Pioneering investigation into relationship between physical sense of taste, and taste as a term denoting judgement, in early modern England.

Shakespearean Sensations

by Katharine A. Craik

Author	: Katharine A. Craik
Publisher	: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages	: 255
Release	: 2013-02-07
Genre	: Literary Criticism
ISBN	: 1107028000

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Shakespearean Sensations explores the ways Shakespeare and his contemporaries imagined literature affecting audiences' bodies, minds and emotions.

Constructions of Cancer in Early Modern England

by Alanna Skuse

Author	: Alanna Skuse
Publisher	: Springer
Total Pages	: 373
Release	: 2015-11-11
Genre	: Literary Criticism
ISBN	: 1137487534

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This book is open access under a CC-BY licence. Cancer is perhaps the modern world's most feared disease. Yet, we know relatively little about this malady's history before the nineteenth century. This book provides the first in-depth examination of perceptions of cancerous disease in early modern England. Looking to drama, poetry and polemic as well as medical texts and personal accounts, it contends that early modern people possessed an understanding of cancer which remains recognizable to us today. Many of the ways in which medical practitioners and lay people imagined cancer – as a 'woman's disease' or a 'beast' inside the body – remain strikingly familiar, and they helped to make this disease a byword for treachery and cruelty in discussions of religion, culture and politics. Equally, cancer treatments were among the era's most radical medical and surgical procedures. From buttered frog ointments to agonizing and dangerous surgeries, they raised abiding questions about the nature of disease and the proper role of the medical practitioner.

The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life

by Erving Goffman

Author	: Erving Goffman
Publisher	: Anchor
Total Pages	: 272
Release	: 2021-09-29
Genre	: Social Science
ISBN	: 0593468295

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A notable contribution to our understanding of ourselves. This book explores the realm of human behavior in social situations and the way that we appear to others. Dr. Goffman uses the metaphor of theatrical performance as a framework. Each person in everyday social intercourse presents himself and his activity to others, attempts to guide and cotnrol the impressions they form of him, and employs certain techniques in order to sustain his performance, just as an actor presents a character to an audience. The discussions of these social techniques offered here are based upon detailed research and observation of social customs in many regions.

Witchcraft

by Marion Gibson

Author	: Marion Gibson
Publisher	: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages	: 320
Release	: 2024-01-16
Genre	: History
ISBN	: 1668002442

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A “thought-provoking and timely” (The Times, London) global history of witch trials across Europe, Africa, and the Americas, told through thirteen distinct trials that illuminate a pattern of demonization and conspiratorial thinking that has profoundly shaped human history. This “inventive and compelling” (The Times Literary Supplement, London) work of social history travels through thirteen witch trials across history, some famous—like the Salem witch trials—and some lesser-known: on Vardø island, Norway, in the 1620s, where an indigenous Sami woman was accused of murder; in France in 1731, during the country’s last witch trial, where a young woman was pitted against her confessor and cult leader; in Lesotho in 1948, where British colonial authorities executed local leaders. Exploring how witchcraft was feared, then decriminalized, and then reimagined as gendered persecution, Witchcraft takes on the intersections between gender and power, indigenous spirituality and colonial rule, political conspiracy and individual resistance. Offering a striking, dramatic journey unspooling over centuries and across continents, Witchcraft is a “well-rounded insight into some of the strangest and cruelest moments in history” (Buzz Magazine), giving voice to those who have been silenced by history.

Amputation Rehabilitation, An Issue of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinics of North America

by Alex Donaghy

Author	: Alex Donaghy
Publisher	: Elsevier Health Sciences
Total Pages	: 249
Release	: 2024-10-09
Genre	: Medical
ISBN	: 044329691X

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In this issue of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinics, guest editors Drs. Alex Donaghy and Alberto Miranda bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Amputee Rehabilitation. Focusing on advancements and innovations in the field, this issue presents evidence-based reviews and clinical insights from physicians, therapists, and prosthetist/orthotists practicing in a variety of clinical settings. Through these expert perspectives, readers will gain insight into promoting better rehabilitation outcomes and fostering a more inclusive and supportive society for those with limb deficiency. - Contains 16 relevant, practice-oriented topics including the physiatrist's approach to limb loss: from pre-amputation to home; new and emerging techniques in amputation surgery; pain after amputation; health care disparities in limb loss rehabilitation; emerging technology: new concepts in prosthetic design and application; and more. - Provides in-depth clinical reviews on amputee rehabilitation, offering actionable insights for clinical practice. - Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.

Literary Culture in Early Modern England, 1630–1700

by Ingo Berensmeyer

Author	: Ingo Berensmeyer
Publisher	: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages	: 293
Release	: 2020-06-22
Genre	: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN	: 311069137X

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This book explores literary culture in England between 1630 and 1700, focusing on connections between material, epistemic, and political conditions of literary writing and reading. In a number of case studies and close readings, it presents the seventeenth century as a period of change that saw a fundamental shift towards a new cultural configuration: neoclassicism. This shift affected a wide array of social practices and institutions, from poetry to politics and from epistemology to civility.