Surgery And Selfhood In Early Modern England
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Surgery And Selfhood In Early Modern England
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Author : Alanna Skuse
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2021-02-18
Surgery And Selfhood In Early Modern England written by Alanna Skuse and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-18 with History categories.
Implements stories of surgical alteration to consider how early modern individuals conceived the relationship between body, mind, and self.
With Words And Knives
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Author : Lynda Payne
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-02-11
With Words And Knives written by Lynda Payne and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-11 with History categories.
The practice of medicine in the days before the development of anaesthetics could often be a brutal and painful experience. Many procedures, especially those involving surgery, must have proved almost as distressing to the doctor as to the patient. Yet in order to cure, the medical practitioner was often required to inflict pain and the patient to endure it. Some level of detachment has always been required of the doctor and especially, of the surgeon. It is the construction of this detachment, or dispassion, in early modern England, with which this work is concerned. The book explores the idea of medical dispassion and shows how practitioners developed the intellectual, verbal and manual skill of being able to replace passion with equanimity and distance. As the skill of 'dispassion' became more widespread it was both enthusiastically promoted and vehemently attacked by scientific and literary writers throughout the early modern period. To explain why the practice was so controversial and aroused such furor, this study takes into account not only patterns of medical education and clinical practice but wider debates concerning social, philosophical and religious ideas.
Constructions Of Cancer In Early Modern England
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Author : Alanna Skuse
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2015-11-11
Constructions Of Cancer In Early Modern England written by Alanna Skuse and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-11 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
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.
Taste And Knowledge In Early Modern England
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Author : Elizabeth L. Swann
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2020-10-15
Taste And Knowledge In Early Modern England written by Elizabeth L. Swann and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-15 with History categories.
Pioneering investigation into relationship between physical sense of taste, and taste as a term denoting judgement, in early modern England.
Civic And Medical Worlds In Early Modern England
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Author : E. Decamp
language : en
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Release Date : 2016-03-08
Civic And Medical Worlds In Early Modern England written by E. Decamp and has been published by Palgrave Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
Through its rich foray into popular literary culture and medical history, this book investigates representations of regular and irregular medical practice in early modern England. Focusing on the prolific figures of the barber, surgeon and barber-surgeon, the author explores what it meant to the early modern population for a group of practitioners to be associated with both the trade guilds and an emerging professional medical world. The book uncovers the differences and cross-pollinations between barbers and surgeons' practices which play out across the literature: we learn not only about their cultural, civic, medical and occupational histories but also about how we should interpret patterns in language, name choice, performance, materiality, acoustics and semiology in the period. The investigations prompt new readings of Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton and Beaumont, among others. And with chapters delving into early modern representations of medical instruments, hairiness, bloodletting procedures, waxy or infected ears, wart removals and skeletons, readers will find much of the contribution of this book is in its detail, which brings its subject to life.
Shakespearean Sensations
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Author : Katharine A. Craik
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2013-02-07
Shakespearean Sensations written by Katharine A. Craik and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-07 with Literary Criticism categories.
Shakespearean Sensations explores the ways Shakespeare and his contemporaries imagined literature affecting audiences' bodies, minds and emotions.
Witchcraft
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Author : Marion Gibson
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2024-01-16
Witchcraft written by Marion Gibson and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-16 with History categories.
A fascinating, vivid global history of witch trials across Europe, Africa, and the Americas, told through thirteen distinct trials that illuminate the pattern of demonization and conspiratorial thinking that has profoundly shaped human history. Witchcraft is a dramatic journey 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 Pennsylvania in 1929 where a magical healer was labelled a “witch”; in Lesotho in 1948, where British colonial authorities executed local leaders. Exploring how witchcraft became feared, decriminalized, reimagined, and eventually reframed as gendered persecution, Witchcraft takes on the intersections between gender and power, indigenous spirituality and colonial rule, and political conspiracy and individual resistance. Offering a vivid, compelling, and dramatic story, unspooling through centuries, about the men and women who were accused—some of whom survived their trials, and some who did not—Witchcraft empowers the people who were and are victimized and marginalized, giving a voice to those who were silenced by history.
Visualizing Sensuous Suffering And Affective Pain In Early Modern Europe And The Spanish Americas
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2018-01-03
Visualizing Sensuous Suffering And Affective Pain In Early Modern Europe And The Spanish Americas written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-03 with Art categories.
A trans-cultural collection of studies on early modern imagery of the phenomena of pain and suffering and viewers’ potential responses. Authors variously consider pain and suffering as somatic, emotional, and psychological experiences.
Pocket Maps And Public Poetry In The English Renaissance
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Author : Katarzyna Lecky
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2019-04-11
Pocket Maps And Public Poetry In The English Renaissance written by Katarzyna Lecky and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
Katarzyna Lecky explores how early modern British poets paid by the state adapted inclusive modes of nationhood charted by inexpensive, small-format maps. She explores chapbooks ('cheapbooks') by Edmund Spenser, Samuel Daniel, Ben Jonson, William Davenant, and John Milton alongside the portable cartography circulating in the same retail print industry. Domestic pocket maps were designed for heavy use by a broad readership that included those on the fringes of literacy. The era's de facto laureates all banked their success as writers appealing to this burgeoning market share by drawing the nation as the property of the commonwealth rather than the Crown. This book investigates the accessible world of small-format cartography as it emerges in the texts of the poets raised in the expansive public sphere in which pocket maps flourished. It works at the intersections of space, place, and national identity to reveal the geographical imaginary shaping the flourishing business of cheap print. Its placement of poetic economies within mainstream systems of trade also demonstrates how cartography and poetry worked together to mobilize average consumers as political agents. This everyday form of geographic poiesis was also a strong platform for poets writing for monarchs and magistrates when their visions of the nation ran counter to the interests of the government.
The Common Lot
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Author : Margaret Pelling
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-06-11
The Common Lot written by Margaret Pelling and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-11 with History categories.
This important collection of Margaret Pelling's essays brings together her key studies of health, medicine and poverty in Tudor and Stuart England - including a number published here for the first time. They show that - then as now - health and medical care were everyday obsessions of ordinary people in the Tudor and Stuart era. Margaret Pelling's book brings this vital dimension of the early modern world in from the periphery of specialist study to the heart of the concerns of social, economic and cultural historians.