Offering an innovative perspective on early modern debates concerning embodiment, Alanna Skuse examines diverse kinds of surgical alteration, from mastectomy to

Implements stories of surgical alteration to consider how early modern individuals conceived the relationship between body, mind, and self.

Pioneering investigation into relationship between physical sense of taste, and taste as a term denoting judgement, in early modern England.

This book is open access under a CC-BY licence. Cancer is perhaps the modern world's most feared disease. Yet, we know relatively little about this malady's his

A trans-cultural collection of studies on early modern imagery of the phenomena of pain and suffering and viewers’ potential responses. Authors variously cons