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• Names: Skuse, Alanna, 1986– author.

• Title: Surgery and selfhood in early modern England : altered bodies and contexts of identity / Alanna Skuse, University of Reading.

• Description: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2021. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

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• Subjects: LCSH: Surgery–Europe–History. | Body image. | Mind and body.

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