Emily Cock
Biographic Data
| ID | 5842070 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emily Cock |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emily |
| FAMILY NAME | Cock |
| SIGNATURE | COCK E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cardiff University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5690-8198 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Portraiture and Disability
Within disability studies and medical humanities, “retrospective diagnosis” has become a controversial practice associated with medical perspectives that fail to appreciate the complexities of the source material, thereby foreclosing further engagement or analysis. This article argues that some approaches to retrospective diagnosis can possess more radical potential, particularly when the interpretation is informed by crip politics. It draws resp…
Disability, Gender and Segregation in the Britain–Australia Convict System
This article assesses the gendered experiences of disability and segregation among prisoners in colonial (1830s) New South Wales. I use the distinction between impairment and disability from the ‘social model of disability’ to show that the disabling capacities of impairments varied depending on wider social structures and beliefs, and on each individual's intersectional identity. I draw critically upon the wealth of administrative paperwork gene…
Facial Disfigurement, Madness, and the Royal Touch in Early Modern Britain
No abstract available
Proportionate Maiming
In 1779, Thomas Jefferson proposed the use of nose-cutting to punish women convicted of specific offences, and the use of retaliation ( lex talionis ) for anyone who deliberately disfigured another person. These punishments were intended to replace the death penalty for these crimes, and as such formed part of Jefferson's attempt to rationalise the Virginian law code in line with eighteenth-century reform principles. Jefferson drew on British law…
He would by no means risque his Reputation’
This article offers a historical corollary to the examination of shame in medical practice by considering the negotiation of shame in the treatment of a stigmatised disease at a time in which surgeons themselves occupied a highly ambivalent social position. It will focus on case studies provided by Daniel Turner (1667-1741), prominent surgeon and later member of the College of Physicians, in his textbooks De Morbis Cutaneis. A Treatise of Disease…
Lead[ing] 'em by the Nose into Publick Shame and Derision
This paper discusses the surgical reconstruction of the nose in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This procedure was most prominently detailed by the Bolognese surgeon Gaspare Tagliacozzi in De curtorum chirurgia per insitionem libri duo (Venice: 1597), and he became synonymous with the operation. Histories of plastic surgery currently state that after Tagliacozzi's death in 1599, his procedure disappeared from medical knowledge. I demons…
Lead[ing] 'em by the Nose into Publick Shame and Derision
This paper discusses the surgical reconstruction of the nose in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This procedure was most prominently detailed by the Bolognese surgeon Gaspare Tagliacozzi in De curtorum chirurgia per insitionem libri duo (Venice: 1597), and he became synonymous with the operation. Histories of plastic surgery currently state that after Tagliacozzi's death in 1599, his procedure disappeared from medical knowledge. I demons…
He would by no means risque his Reputation’
This article offers a historical corollary to the examination of shame in medical practice by considering the negotiation of shame in the treatment of a stigmatised disease at a time in which surgeons themselves occupied a highly ambivalent social position. It will focus on case studies provided by Daniel Turner (1667-1741), prominent surgeon and later member of the College of Physicians, in his textbooks De Morbis Cutaneis. A Treatise of Disease…
Lead[ing] 'em by the Nose into Publick Shame and Derision
This paper discusses the surgical reconstruction of the nose in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This procedure was most prominently detailed by the Bolognese surgeon Gaspare Tagliacozzi in De curtorum chirurgia per insitionem libri duo (Venice: 1597), and he became synonymous with the operation. Histories of plastic surgery currently state that after Tagliacozzi's death in 1599, his procedure disappeared from medical knowledge. I demons…
He would by no means risque his Reputation’
This article offers a historical corollary to the examination of shame in medical practice by considering the negotiation of shame in the treatment of a stigmatised disease at a time in which surgeons themselves occupied a highly ambivalent social position. It will focus on case studies provided by Daniel Turner (1667-1741), prominent surgeon and later member of the College of Physicians, in his textbooks De Morbis Cutaneis. A Treatise of Disease…
Proportionate Maiming
In 1779, Thomas Jefferson proposed the use of nose-cutting to punish women convicted of specific offences, and the use of retaliation ( lex talionis ) for anyone who deliberately disfigured another person. These punishments were intended to replace the death penalty for these crimes, and as such formed part of Jefferson's attempt to rationalise the Virginian law code in line with eighteenth-century reform principles. Jefferson drew on British law…
Facial Disfigurement, Madness, and the Royal Touch in Early Modern Britain
No abstract available
Disability, Gender and Segregation in the Britain–Australia Convict System
This article assesses the gendered experiences of disability and segregation among prisoners in colonial (1830s) New South Wales. I use the distinction between impairment and disability from the ‘social model of disability’ to show that the disabling capacities of impairments varied depending on wider social structures and beliefs, and on each individual's intersectional identity. I draw critically upon the wealth of administrative paperwork gene…
Portraiture and Disability
Within disability studies and medical humanities, “retrospective diagnosis” has become a controversial practice associated with medical perspectives that fail to appreciate the complexities of the source material, thereby foreclosing further engagement or analysis. This article argues that some approaches to retrospective diagnosis can possess more radical potential, particularly when the interpretation is informed by crip politics. It draws resp…
Psychology (5 works) · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Criminology (2 works) · Disfigurement (2 works)