Rhinoplasty and the nose in early modern British medicine and culture / Emily Cock.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cock, Emily, author.

Series:

Social histories of medicine.

Social histories of medicine

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rhinoplasty--Great Britain--History.

Rhinoplasty.

Rhinoplasty--Great Britain--Social aspects.

Nose in popular culture.

Nose--Social aspects.

Nose.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 315 pages) : illustrations (black and white), digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2019.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Challenging histories of plastic surgery that posit a complete disappearance of Gaspare Tagliacozzi's rhinoplasty operation after his death in 1599, this book traces knowledge of the procedure within the early modern British medical community, through to its impact on the nineteenth-century revival of skin-flap facial surgeries. The author explores why such a procedure was controversial, and the cultural importance of the nose, offering critical readings of literary noses from Shakespeare to Laurence Sterne.

Contents:

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

Works cited.

Notes:

MUP 2020 titles.

Made available via: manchesterhive.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on March 19, 2026).

ISBN:

9781526160744

1526160749

9781526137173

1526137178

OCLC:

1149150129