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Index
Coverpage
Half title
Title page
Imprints page
Contents
Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1 The Instrumental Body: Castrati
Manufactured Men
Sex Objects
Beyond Instrumentality
Conclusion
Chapter 2 Invisible Women: Altered Female Bodies
Altering the Female Body
Amazons
Abject Alteration
Conclusion
Chapter 3 Second-Hand Faces: Aesthetic Surgery
Saving Face
‘Hypocrisy of Countenance’
Reputation and Rhinoplasty
Conclusion
Chapter 4 Acting the Part: Prosthetic Limbs
The Prosthetic in Society
Titus Andronicus and the Point of the Staff
Conclusion
Chapter 5 ‘Recompact My Scattered Parts’: the Altered Body after Death
Scholarly Contexts
The Miracle of the Black Leg
Returning to the Grave
Conclusion
Chapter 6 Phantom Limbs and the Hard Problem
Thinking with Phantoms: Early Modern Theories of Sensation
Descartes and Phantom Pain
The Hard Problem
Conclusion
Conclusion
Bibliography
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Index
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