Emily Cock

Rhinoplasty and the nose in early modern British medicine and culture

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Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. September 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 542g
• ISBN-13: 9781526137166
• ISBN-10: 152613716X
• Artikelnr.: 57357682

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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
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