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Equestrian Cultures
As much as dogs, cats, or any domestic animal, horses exemplify the vast range of human-animal interactions. Horses have long been deployed to help with a variety of human activities—from racing and riding to police work, farming, warfare, and therapy—and have figured heavily in the history of natural sciences, social sciences, and the humanities. Most accounts of the equine-human relationship, however, fail to address the last few centuries of Western history, focusing instead on pre-1700 interactions. Equestrian Cultures fills in the gap, telling the story of how prominently horses continue to figure in our lives, up to the present day. Kristen Guest and Monica Mattfeld place the m...
Belly-Rippers, Surgical Innovation and the Ovariotomy Controversy
This open access book looks at the dramatic history of ovariotomy, an operation to remove ovarian tumours first practiced in the early nineteenth century. Bold and daring, surgeons who performed it claimed to be initiating a new era of surgery by opening the abdomen. Ovariotomy soon occupied a complex position within medicine and society, as an operation which symbolised surgical progress, while also remaining at the boundaries of ethical acceptability. This book traces the operation’s innovation, from its roots in eighteenth-century pathology, through the denouncement of those who performed it as ‘belly-rippers’, to its rapid uptake in the 1880s, when ovariotomists were accused of over-operating. Throughout the century, the operation was never a hair’s breadth from controversy.
The Palgrave Handbook of the History of Surgery
This handbook covers the technical, social and cultural history of surgery. It reflects the state of the art and suggests directions for future research. It discusses what is different and specific about the history of surgery - a manual activity with a direct impact on the patient’s body. The individual entries in the handbook function as starting points for anyone who wants to obtain up-to-date information about an area in the history of surgery for purposes of research or for general orientation. Written by 26 experts from 6 countries, the chapters discuss the essential topics of the field (such as anaesthesia, wound infection, instruments, specialization), specific domains areas (for example, cancer surgery, transplants, animals, war), but also innovative themes (women, popular culture, nursing, clinical trials) and make connections to other areas of historical research (such as the history of emotions, art, architecture, colonial history). Chapters 16 and 18 of this book are available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com
The Health Humanities in German Studies
The first full-length study to bring together the fields of Health Humanities and German studies, this book features contributions from a range of key scholars and provides an overview of the latest work being done at the intersection of these two disciplines. In addition to surveying the current critical terrain in unparalleled depth, it also explores future directions that these fields may take. Organized around seven sections representing key areas of focus for both disciplines, this book provides important new insights into the intersections between Health Humanities, German Studies, and other fields of inquiry that have been gaining prominence over the past decade in academic and public discourse. In their contributions, the authors engage with disability studies, critical race studies, gender/embodiment studies, trauma studies, as well as animal/environmental studies.
Sounding Bodies
The unfolding influence of music and sound on the fundamental structure of the biomedical sciences, from ancient times to the present. Beginning in ancient Greece, Peter Pesic writes, music and sound significantly affected the development of the biomedical sciences. Physicians used rhythmical ratios to interpret the pulse, which inspired later efforts to record the pulse in musical notation. After 1700, biology and medicine took a “sonic turn,” viewing the body as a musical instrument, the rhythms and vibrations of which could guide therapeutic insight. In Sounding Bodies, Pesic traces the unfolding influence of music and sound on the fundamental structure of the biomedical sciences. Pes...
A Cultural History of Medicine in the Age of Enlightenment
"Patient, disease and physician were the three corners of the 'medical triangle' according to one of the texts attributed to Hippocrates, a famous ancient Greek doctor. This volume, covering a period from roughly 800 BCE to 800 CE, examines and deconstructs these three aspects of ancient medicine in the Mediterranean world. It shows that, while physicians sought to assert themselves as experts in the medical art, they had to contend with numerous other healers whose methods, remedies and tools patients often favoured. It explores the ways in which civic entities, cities, kingdoms and empires, and their officials directly and indirectly shaped medical encounters and discoveries. It examines t...
Human and Animal Cognition in Early Modern Philosophy and Medicine
From the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, new anatomical investigations of the brain and the nervous system, together with a renewed interest in comparative anatomy, allowed doctors and philosophers to ground their theories on sense perception, the emergence of human intelligence, and the soul/body relationship in modern science. They investigated the anatomical structures and the physiological processes underlying the rise, differentiation, and articulation of human cognitive activities, and looked for the "anatomical roots" of the specificity of human intelligence when compared to other forms of animal sensibility. This edited volume focuses on medical and philosophical debates on huma...
Tiere und Emotionen
Die Frage nach den Emotionen von Tieren sowie nach der Emotionalität der Tier-Mensch-Beziehungen ist sowohl für die Animal Studies als auch für die Emotionsforschung zentral. Es ergeben sich Fragen nach der Rolle von Gefühlen in der Grenzziehung zwischen Tieren und Menschen und in der Hierarchisierung des Tierreichs sowie nach den sozialen, ethischen und politischen Folgen dieser Praktiken. Die Beiträge in dieser Ausgabe von Tierstudien setzen sich mit solchen Fragen in Zusammenhängen von der Antike bis in die Gegenwart auseinander. Auf dieser Reise gewinnen die Leser*innen Einblicke in eine Vielzahl von Gegenständen: Die Wichtigkeit des Gefühlslebens von Schlittenhunden in der Aneig...
Auftakte der Bioakustik
Wissenschaftliches Schreiben ist nach wie vor zumeist ein Schreiben in Disziplinen. Das gilt insbesondere für die Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften: Die Zugehörigkeit zu einer bestimmten akademischen Disziplin bestimmt in einem hohen Maß nicht nur den Inhalt des Gesagten, sondern auch die Form dessen, was überhaupt gesagt werden kann. Was aber, wenn nicht die Disziplin, sondern die Frage zuerst da ist? Wenn geistes- und kulturwissenschaftliche Forschung sich jenseits disziplinärer Ordnung in einem primären Fragen verortet und damit ein unmarkiertes Feld betritt. Dann kann ein Forschen und Schreiben entstehen, das nicht interdisziplinär ist, sondern sich jenseits der üblichen Diszipli...
