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Rhinoplasty and the nose in early modern British medicine and culture /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cock, Emily (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2019]
Series:Social histories of medicine.
Subjects:
Rhinoplasty > Great Britain > History.
Rhinoplasty > Social aspects > Great Britain.
Nose in popular culture.
Nose > Social aspects.
Rhinoplasty > history.
Nose.
United Kingdom.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: To supply the scandalous want of that obvious part
  • Reading and disguising faces
  • Taliacotian rhinoplasty
  • The circulation of surgical knowledge
  • Satirising sympathy
  • Dear flesh: noses on sale
  • Conclusion: Changing noses, changing fortunes.