Gaspare Tagliacozzi and early modern surgery : faces, men, and pain / Paolo Savoia.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Savoia, Paolo, author.

Contributor:

Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Series:

Body in the city

The body in the city

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tagliacozzi, Gaspare, 1545-1599.

Pain--Social aspects.

Pain.

Masculinity--Social aspects.

Masculinity.

Face--Social aspects.

Face.

Surgery, Plastic--Social aspects.

Surgery, Plastic.

History.

Face--Surgery.

Europe.

Italy.

Tagliacozzi, Gaspare, 1545-1599--Influence.

Tagliacozzi, Gaspare.

Tagliacozzi, Gaspare, 1545-1599. De curtorum chirurgia per insitionem.

Face--Surgery--Italy--History.

Surgery, Plastic--Europe--History--16th century.

Surgery, Plastic--Social aspects--Europe.

Face--Social aspects--Europe.

Masculinity--Social aspects--Europe.

Pain--Social aspects--Europe.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 271 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.

Summary:

"This book uses the work of Bolognese physician and anatomist Gaspare Tagliacozzi to explore the social and cultural history of early modern surgery; it discusses how Italian and European surgeons' attitudes to health and beauty, and how patients' gender shaped views on the public appearance of the human body. In 1597, Gaspare Tagliacozzi published a two-volume book on reconstructive surgery of the mutilated parts of the face. Studying Tagliacozzi's surgery in context corrects widespread views about the birth of plastic surgery. Through a combination of cultural history, microhistory, historical epistemology, and gender history, this book describes the practice and practitioners considered to be at the periphery of the "Scientific Revolution." Historical themes covered include the writing of individual cases, hegemonic and subaltern forms of masculinity, concepts of the natural and the artificial, emotional communities and moral economies of pain, and the historical anthropology of the culture of beauty, the face, and its disfigurements. The book is essential reading for upper-level students, postgraduates and scholars working on the history of medicine and surgery, the history of the body, gender and cultural history. It will also appeal to those interested in the history of beauty, urban studies and the renaissance period more generally"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Patients and cases

Patients and practitioners : swords, books, and knives

The culture of the face

Health and appearance

Grafting humans and plants

Surgery and the moral economy of pain

Conclusion: The place of Tagliacozzi.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Savoia, Paolo. Gaspare Tagliacozzi and early modern surgery.

ISBN:

9780367201746

0367201747

9780367201739

0367201739

OCLC:

1117913299

Publisher Number:

99982945613