Heidi published The Malleable Body: Surgeons, Artisans, and Amputees in Early Modern Germany with Manchester University Press.
Heidi Hausse
Princeton University
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Dissertation Fellow
Life and Limb: Technology, Surgery, and Bodily Loss in Early Modern Germany
Abstract: My project investigates early modern responses to the problems of bodily loss posed by new military technologies within the Holy Roman Empire (early modern Germany). The expansion of gunpowder warfare in the sixteenth century mutilated human bodies in a way and on a scale previously unimaginable. My project examines medical activities, textual debates and mechanical instruments developed to address the rising need for drastic surgical intervention. By reimagining surgeons as craftsmen, I argue that these hands-on responses were a mode of knowing and learning about the body, and were governed by implicit assumptions about the body and healing which can be uncovered and explored through study. My project uses healing practices as a lens through which to investigate how understandings of the body changed as bodies were reshaped by guns and scalpels.
Updates
Heidi Hausse
Heidi Hausse
Heidi has accepted a position as assistant professor in early modern Europe in the History Department at Auburn University, to begin in August 2018.
Heidi Hausse
Heidi is scheduled to defend her dissertation in mid-May 2016. She'll join the Columbia University Society of Fellows for 2016-2019 and has received the Molina Fellowship in the History of Medicine at the Huntington.
Heidi Hausse
Hausse won a 2015-16 Mellon-ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship for her project, Life and Limb: Technology, Surgery, and Bodily Loss in Early Modern Germany, 1500-1700.
Heidi Hausse
Hausse was awarded a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship for 2015-16. Her article "Bones of Contention: The Decision to Amputate in Early Modern Germany," is forthcoming in the Sixteenth Century Journal. She recently presented a paper, "Setting the Record Straight: The Invention of Mechanical Limbs in Sixteenth-Century Europe," at the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT), and was awarded Honorable Mention (runner-up) for the Robinson Prize.
Heidi Hausse
Hausse won a 2015-16 Mellon-ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship for her project, Life and Limb: Technology, Surgery, and Bodily Loss in Early Modern Germany, 1500-1700.
Heidi Hausse
Hausse is working on her dissertation this year as a Fellow at the Consortium. She recently presented a paper, "To Dismember or Not to Dismember: The Social Process of Amputation in Early Modern Surgery," at the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference in New Orleans. In spring 2014 her article entitled "European Theories and Local Therapies: Mordexi and Galenism in the East Indies, 1500-1700," was published in the Journal of Early Modern History. She continues to co-chair the Early Modern Workshop at Princeton University.