SHARE

Rhinoplasty and the nose in early modern British medicine and culture

By Emily Cock

Rhinoplasty and the nose in early modern British medicine and culture
Hardcover +
  • Price: £30.00
  • ISBN: 9781526137166
  • Publish Date: Sep 2019
  • Publisher: Manchester University Press
  • Buy Now £30.00

    Delivery Exc. North and South America

    Buy

    Delivery to North and South America

    Click Here to Buy from Your Preferred Bookseller
    Paperback -
  • Price: £30.00
  • ISBN: 9781526160744
  • Publish Date: Jan 2022
  • Publisher: Manchester University Press
  • Buy Now £30.00

    Delivery Exc. North and South America

    Buy

    Delivery to North and South America

    Click Here to Buy from Your Preferred Bookseller
    eBook +
  • Price: £30.00
  • ISBN: 9781526137180
  • Publish Date: Sep 2019
  • Publisher: Manchester University Press
  • Buy Now £30.00

    Delivery Exc. North and South America

    Buy

    Delivery to North and South America

    Click Here to Buy from Your Preferred Bookseller

    Book Information

    Description

    Challenging histories of plastic surgery that posit a complete disappearance of Gaspare Tagliacozzi's rhinoplasty operation after his death in 1599, Rhinoplasty and the nose in early modern British medicine and culture 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 book 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. Medical knowledge of the graft operation was accompanied by a spurious story that the nose would be constructed from flesh purchased from a social inferior, and would drop off when that person died. The volume therefore explores this narrative in detail for its role in the procedure's stigmatisation, its engagement with the doctrine of medical sympathy, and its unique attempt to commoditise living human flesh.

    Reviews

    'this is a carefully researched and convincing book about the multi-layered reception of one controversial surgical procedure. [...] this book is recommended not only to historians of medicine and the body but also to scholars interested in early modern British literary history and popular culture, queer theory and the history of sexuality.'
    Social History of Medicine

    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

    Author

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

    Rhinoplasty and the nose in early modern British medicine and culture

    By Emily Cock

    Paperback £30.00 / $45.95

    Hardcover £85.00 / $130.00

    Or buy from your preferred bookseller:

    Amazon Waterstones Blackwells Bookshop

    Newsletter Sign Up

    Manchester University Press
    Close

    Your cart is empty.

    Total
    Select your shipping destination to estimate postage costs

    (Based on standard shipping costs)

    Final cost calculated on checkout
    Checkout
    Promotional codes can be added on Checkout