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Blood, Guts, and Nasty Cuts
A Thrilling Guide to the History of Medicine
Av Alanna Skuse
Inbunden, 2026
184 kr
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Want to know why Victorian doctors never washed their clothes? Who to call for a bad case of medieval bewitchment? Or how to cure the plague by staring at a toad?Blood, Guts, and Nasty Cuts is a whistle-stop tour of the grisly, glorious, and ingeniously inventive history of medicine, all the way …
Blood, Guts, and Nasty Cuts
A Thrilling Guide to the History of Medicine
Av Alanna Skuse
E-bok, 2026
96 kr
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Want to know why Victorian doctors never washed their clothes? Who to call for a bad case of medieval bewitchment? Or how to cure the plague by staring at a toad?Blood, Guts, and Nasty Cuts is a whistle-stop tour of the grisly, glorious, and ingeniously inventive history of medicine, all the way …
Surgery and Selfhood in Early Modern England
Av Alanna Skuse
Häftad, 2023
486 kr
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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. …
Surgery and Selfhood in Early Modern England
Av Alanna Skuse
Inbunden, 2021
1647 kr
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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. …
Surgery and Selfhood in Early Modern England
Altered Bodies and Contexts of Identity
Av Alanna Skuse
E-bok, 2021
469 kr
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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. …
Constructions of Cancer in Early Modern England
Ravenous Natures
Av Alanna Skuse
Inbunden, 2015
359 kr
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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 …
Constructions of Cancer in Early Modern England
Ravenous Natures
Av Alanna Skuse
Häftad, 2015
259 kr
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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 …
Surgeon, The Midwife, The Quack
How to Stay Alive in Renaissance England
Av Alanna Skuse
Inbunden, 2025
213 kr
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Discover the remarkable birth of modern medicine... and how not to die in the Renaissance'An entertaining history of medicine… Skuse brings a deep familiarity with the contemporary sources and a dry wit.' Dan Jones, The Sunday Times'A richly researched and atmospheric history.' Wall Street …
Surgeon, The Midwife, The Quack
How to Stay Alive in Renaissance England
Av Alanna Skuse
E-bok, 2025
199 kr
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Discover the remarkable birth of modern medicine. When we imagine Renaissance medicine, the cliché is dreadful – unsterile instruments, a total lack of anaesthetics and shocking levels of infant and maternal mortality. And that’s before you get into astrology, bloodletting and a litany of bizarre …
Surgeon, The Midwife, The Quack
How to Stay Alive in Renaissance England
Av Alanna Skuse
Häftad, 2026
138 kr
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Discover the remarkable birth of modern medicine... and how not to die in the Renaissance'An entertaining history of medicine… Skuse brings a deep familiarity with the contemporary sources and a dry wit.' Dan Jones, The Sunday Times'A richly researched and atmospheric history.' Wall Street …
Hurt Feelings
Wounding Oneself in Early Modern Literature
Av Alanna Skuse
Inbunden, 2025
605 kr
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This open access book offers the first full study of the phenomenon of self-wounding as it is represented in early modern literature. It looks at depictions of self-injury in ballads, plays, medical texts and histories from the 1580s to the turn of the eighteenth century. In this period, it argues, …
Blood, Guts, and Nasty Cuts
A Thrilling History of Medicine
Av Alanna Skuse
2026
280 kr
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Want to know why Victorian doctors never washed their clothes? Who to call for a bad case of medieval bewitchment? Or how to cure the plague by staring at a toad? From Leeches to Lasers is a whistle-stop tour of the grisly, glorious, and ingeniously inventive history of medicine, all the way from …
