"It Is No Small Presumption to Dismember the Image of God": Early Modern Leg Amputation on the Barber-Surgeon's Table and the Dramatist's Page.

IF 0.2 4区 文学 0 LITERATURE LITERATURE AND MEDICINE Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI:10.1353/lm.2022.0031
Giulia Mari
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Using the multiple versions of Doctor Faustus's fraudulent leg removal presented in texts A and B of Christopher Marlowe's tragedy, along with The English Faust Book (a source text for Marlowe), and examining an extensive number of early modern surgical manuals, this essay discusses leg amputation in the early modern period. As well as attempting to understand the circumstances that would cause a surgeon to proceed with such an extreme course of action, the essay also explores the operation itself, its evolution through the early modern period, the instruments used, the life prospects of an amputee in terms of mobility and prosthetics, and finally the social implications and moral responsibilities of removing a limb in the context of a society that placed great importance in the idea of corporeal integrity in the afterlife.

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“肢解上帝的形象是一个不小的假设”:在理发师外科医生的桌子上和剧作家的页面上的早期现代截肢
摘要:本文采用克里斯托弗·马洛悲剧A、B文本中的多个版本的浮士德医生的欺诈性截肢手术,以及马洛的原始文本《浮士德英文书》,并查阅了大量现代早期外科手册,讨论了现代早期的截肢手术。除了试图了解导致外科医生采取这种极端行动的情况外,本文还探讨了手术本身、其在现代早期的演变、使用的器械、截肢者在行动和假肢方面的生活前景,最后,在一个非常重视死后物质完整性的社会背景下,切除肢体的社会意义和道德责任。
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