Index

Alanna Skuse

Index

4E cognition, 169–173

A Larum for London, 88

Addison, Joseph, 76

advertising, 27, 62, 93–94

Allen, Charles, Curious Observations on the Teeth, 61, 63

allografting. See rhinoplasty

Amazons

in early modern drama, 46–48

ethnography, 39–41

gynocentrism, 40

history, 39–40

links to cancer, 42–46

queerness, 41–42

race, 41, 48–49

removal of breast, 40–41

amputation, 1, 87

decision to undergo, 83–85

in Titus Andronicus, 100–101

Ancillon, Charles, Italian Love

Or, Eunuchism Displayed, 18, 30–32

animals

experiments on, 73–74

as source of false teeth, 63

anodyne necklace, 27–28, 74

automata, 97–98

Bacon, Francis, ‘Of Deformity’, 123

Beckett, William, New Discoveries Relating to the Cure of Cancers, 35

Benardi, Francesco. See Senesino

blood transfusions, 73–74

body parts. See face, importance of; hands, symbolism of; mastectomy; noses, symbolism of; prostheses, facial; prostheses, limb; teeth

Boyle, Robert

Some Considerations about the Reconcileableness of Reason and Religion, 117

Some Physico-Theological Considerations about the Possibility of the Resurrection, 116–118

‘Tryals Proposed by Mr. Boyle to Dr Lower, to Be Made by Him, for the Improvement of Transfusing Blood out of One Live Animal into Another’, 73

Broschi, Carlo Maria Michelangelo Nicola. See Farinelli

Bulwer, John

Anthropometamorphosis

= Man Transform’d

Or, the Artificiall Changling, 18, 39, 41, 54–55

Chirologia, or, The Naturall Language of the Hand, 60

Philocophus, or, The Deafe and Dumbe Mans Friend, 60

Bunyan, John, The Resurrection of the Dead and Eternall Judgement, 119

burial

of amputated limbs, 109, 132–133

embalming, 135–136

items with corpses, 134

prostheses buried with owners, 134

requests in wills, 135

shrouding of corpses, 134

Burnet, Thomas, De Statu Mortuorum & Resurgentium Tractatus., 120

Butler, Samuel, Hudibras, 76

cancer, 36, 42–46

psycho-oncology, 49

Casanova, Giacomo, 23

castrati

creation of, 16–17

as equivalent to sterilised females, 53

gender status, 30–33

heterosexuality, 24–26

homosexuality, 23

hostility towards, 20–22

marriage, 29–32

and money, 19–21

objectification of, 22, 26–29, 31

opera roles, 32–33

physical features, 17–18

castration (medical), 34

Chambers, Ephraim, Cyclopaedia, 112

children, 17, 84

cognition, 8–10 See also 4E cognition; pain: theories of; senses; social cognition

Cooke, James, Mellificium Chirurgiæ, or the Marrow of Many Good Authors Enlarged, 90

Cosmas and Damian, saints. See miracles: miracle of the black leg

cosmetics, 64–65

Cowper, Sarah, 68

crimes

by disabled people, 105

maiming, 61

rape, 99–100

Davenant, Sir William, 76–79

Davenport, Christopher, An Enchiridion of Faith, 127

Day, Martin, Doomes-Day, or, a Treatise of the Resurrection of the Body, 111

de Courtin, Antoine, A Treatise of Jealousie, 149–150

de la Charriere, Joseph, A Treatise of the Operations of Surgery, 87

de la Vauguion, M., A Compleat Body of Chirurgical Operations, 87

de Voragine, Jacob, The Golden Legend, 128

death. See burial; miracles; resurrection

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), 167–169

dentistry. See Allen, Charles; teeth

dentures. See teeth: false teeth

Descartes, René, 144–152, 156–160

Discourse on Method, Optics, Geometry, and Meteorology, 145

‘Extract from a letter to Plempius for Fromondus’, 144–145

‘Letter to Mesland, 9 February 1645’, 159

‘Meditation VI’, 151–152, 158–159

mind–body relationship, 156–161

non-resemblance, 145–146

pain, bell-cord theory of, 147–149, 148

phantom pain, 144–148

vision, theories of. See non-resemblance

Digby, Sir Kenelm, A Late Discourse, Made in a Solmne Assembly of Nobles and Learned Men at Montepellier in France, 74–75

Dionis, Pierre, A Course of Chirurgical Operations, Demonstrated in the Royal Garden at Paris, 37–38

disability

as identity category, 5–6, 121–125

and intersectionality, 7

moral status of, 105, 123–124

terminology, 5–6

Donne, John, 112–116

‘From a Sermon Preached on Easter Day, 1626’, 115

‘The Funeral’, 115

‘Obsequies to the Lord Harrington, Brother to the Countess of Bedford’, 114

‘Preached at Lincolns Inne’, 113–114

‘The Second Anniversary’, 115

‘A Sermon Preached at the Earl of Bridge-Waters House’, 2, 112

‘A Valediction of My Name in the Window’, 115–116

dualism, 8–10, 169 See also Descartes, René

Dunton, John, An Essay Proving We Shall Know Our Friends in Heaven, 120

dys-appearance, 33, 85–86, 94

embodied cognition. See 4E cognition

ethnography. See Amazons; race

eunuchs, 30–31

extended cognition. See 4E cognition

face, importance of. See facial difference; physiognomy; noses, symbolism of

facial difference, 60–61, 78

Farinelli, 19, 21, 25–28, 31

Fauchard, Pierre, Treatise on the Teeth, 64

female sterilisation, 53–55

Fludd, Robert, Doctor Fludds Answer Vnto M· Foster or, The Squeesing of Parson Fosters Sponge, 74–75

Galenism, 7–8

gangrene, 84–85

Gauden, John, A Discourse of Auxiliary Beauty. Or Artificiall Hansomnesse. In Point of Conscience between Two Ladies, 64–65

gesture, 170–171

Greenhil, Thomas, Nekrokedeia

Or, the Art of Embalming, 135

Grimaldi, Nicola Francesco Leonardo. See Nicolini

hands, symbolism of, 102

handwriting. See hands, symbolism of

hard problem, the, 138–139 See also Descartes: mind–body relationship

Hay, William, Deformity:

an Essay, 124

Herrick, Robert, ‘Upon Glasco. Epig.’, 65–66

Heywood, Thomas, Gynaikeion

Or, Nine Bookes of Various History, 39, 41

Hody, Humphrey, The Resurrection of the (Same) Body Asserted From the Traditions of the Heathens, the Ancient Jews, and the Primitive Church, 118–119

Hogarth, William, A Rake’s Progress, 21

hospitals, 88

humoralism. See Galenism

Hunter, William, 136

impairment. See disability: terminology

Johnson, Samuel, The Resurrection of the Same Body, 122

Kristeva, Julia, Powers of Horror, 51–52

Leder, Drew. See dys-appearance

Lemnius, Levinus, The Secret Miracles of Nature, 121

limb restoration. See miracles

Locke, John, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, 160

Mandeville, Sir John, The Voyages and Trauailes of Sir John Maundeuile Knight, 39–40

masculinity

and castrati, 21, 23–25, 30–33

and the noble body, 66–67

and prostheses, 92–93

Massinger, Philip and John Fletcher, The Sea Voyage, 47

mastectomy, 35–39

and Amazons, 40–46

survivors of, 49–53

Maunsell, Dorothea, 29–30

Maynes, Jasper, The Amorous Warre, 48

miracles

miracle of the black leg, the, 127–129

miracle at Calanda, the, 126–127

miracle of Peter of Grenoble, the, 125–126

mirror neurons, 172

Moyle, John, Abstractum Chirurgiae Marinae., or, An Abstract of Sea Chirurgery, 1, 110

Mullman, Teresia Constantia, The Happy Courtezan Or, the Prude Demolish’d, 25–26

newspapers, 19, 22, 26–27, 38–39, 62, 109

Nicolini, 24, 31

noble body, 66–67, 79

noses, symbolism of, 69, 79 See also physiognomy

opera, 17–19, 32–33

pain

and surgery, 1, 37, 83, 87

theories of, 143–144, 147–151

See also phantom limb pain

Paracelsus (Theophrastus von Hohenheim), 74

Paré, Ambroise

facial prostheses, 58–60

phantom limbs, 139–142

The Apologie and Treatise of Ambroise Paré, 92

Ten Books of Surgery, 139–140

The Workes of That Famous Chirurgion Ambrose Parey, 58–60, 90, 91, 104–105, 140–142

passions. See Galenism

Pepys, Samuel, 18, 65

periodicals, 20, 26–27, 56–57, 62, 88 See also newspapers; Prompter

phantom limb pain

Cartesian interpretations, 144–156

later medical interpretations, 162–163

non-Cartesian interpretations, 139–144

phenomenology of, 161–162

phenomenology, 10–11, 169 See also dys-appearance

physiognomy, 67–69

Porterfield, William, A Treatise on the Eye, the Manner and Phænomena of Vision, 152–153, 156

Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia

‘Elisabeth to Descartes [The Hague] 10 June 1643 (AT 3 683)’, 156–157

‘Elisabeth to Descartes [The Hague] 16 August 1645, (AT 2 268)’, 157–158

Prompter, The, 20, 53

prostheses, facial, 65

eye, 59

nose, 69

palate, 58–59

social effects of, 60–61

prostheses, limb

appearance of, 95

and automata, 96–98

cost of, 88

design of, 90–93

disposal of. See burial: prostheses buried with owners

hands, 90–92

incorporation of, 94

legs, 90–94

modern innovations in, 167–168

as proof of military service, 88–89

social effects of, 97–98

and supercrip trope, 104–105

Titus Andronicus, 81–82, 102–107

trusses, 95

prostheses, theory of, 62–63, 66, 82–83

Pulter, Hester, ‘To Sir W.D. upon the Unspeakable Loss of the Most Conspicuous and Chief Ornament of His Frontispiece’, 76–79

Rabelais, François, The Life of Gargantua and Pantagruel, 3

race

and Amazons, 41, 48–49

and castrati, 18–30

and female sterilisation, 54

in the miracle of the black leg, 128–129

in Titus Andronicus, 101

Raleigh, Sir Walter, Discovery of the Large, Rich, and Beautiful Empire of Guiana, 40–41

Read, Alexander, 71

Chirurgorum Comes, 61

Somatographia Anthropine, 142–143

religion. See miracles; resurrection

resurrection, 110–125

and the ‘cannibal problem’, 114–115

disabilities in resurrected bodies, 119–122

nature of resurrected bodies, 111–112, 116–121

scriptural basis, 110–111

rhinoplasty

grafts from third parties, 71–79

history of, 70

method, 70

rogue literature, 89

Royal Society, the, 73

Ryder, Hugh, New Practical Observations in Surgery, 83

Salmon, William, Ars Chirurgica, 90–92

scars, 49, 79

Scultetus, Johannes, The Chyrurgeon’s Store-House, 43–45

Senesino, 20

senses, 61

nociception. See pain: theories of; phantom limb pain

smell, 77

vision, 145–146

sex

and bodily difference, 49–50

sexuality, 23–26

See also Amazons; castrati

Shakespeare, William

2 Henry IV, 89

Henry V, 99

A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 47

Titus Andronicus, 81–82, 98–107

Sinibaldi, Giovanni Benedetto, Rare Verities, 54

Smollet, Tobias, Roderick Random, 86

social cognition, 171 See also 4E cognition

soul. See dualism; resurrection

sterilisation. See castrati; castration (medical); female sterilisation

supercrip trope, 104–105

surgeons. See Beckett, William; Cooke, James; de la Charriere, Joseph; de la Vauguion, M.; Dionis, Pierre; Moyle, John; Paré, Ambroise; Read, Alexander; Salmon, William; Scultetus, Johannes; Tagliacozzi, Gaspare; van Horne, Johann; Woodall, John

surgeries. See amputation; castration; female sterilisation; mastectomy; rhinoplasty

sympathy, 73–75

Tagliacozzi, Gaspare

De curtorum Chirurgia per Institionem, 70–72

‘Letter to Hieronymus Mercurialis’, 70

See also rhinoplasty

teeth

false teeth, 61–62, 65–66

transplants, 62–64

Tenducci, Giusto Ferdinando, 29–30

transhumanism, 167–169

transplants

dental transplant. See teeth

hand transplant (modern), 130–132

limb transplant (miraculous), 127–128

transvestism, 32–33

travesti, 32–33

vagrancy, 89, 105

van Helmont, Jean-Baptiste, 74

A Ternary of Paradoxes. The Magnetick Cure of Wounds, 72

van Horne, Johann, Micro-Techne, 59–60

venereal disease, 68–70

Venette, Nicholas, Mysteries of Conjugal Love, 54

war

injuries, 57–58

rape as side-effect of, 98–100

treatment of veterans, 88–89

Ward, John, Notebook of John Ward, 63

Watts, Isaac, Philosophical Essays on Various Subjects, 120

weapon-salve. See sympathy

Weston, John, The Amazon Queene, 47

women

beauty of, 64–65

and castrati, 20–21, 25–26

and disability, 50

and maternity, 46, 51–53

in opera, 33

Woodall, John, ‘A Treatise of Gangraena’, 84, 92–93

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