Amputation Quote by L. M. Boyd

“In the absence of any therapy, the mentally ill of the 20th century were chained, shackled, straitjacketed, kept nude, electrocuted, half-frozen, parboiled, violently hosed,…

— Antonella Gambotto-Burke

“It’s what they called surgeons in the Old West,” I said. “Often men of your profession only had one option to cure their patients.…

— David A. Goodman

“This was a cruelty made by history. Long after serfdom had been abolished the land captains exercised their right to flog the peasants for…

— Orlando Figes

“Later, Aldapuerta spent two years at medical school where he learned the geography of the human body and something of its almost infinite capacity…

— Anonymous

“the Code of Hammurabi of c.1776 BC, which served as a cooperation manual for hundreds of thousands of ancient Babylonians; and the American Declaration…

— Yuval Noah Harari

This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.

— Baron de Montesquieu

I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the…

— Bertolt Brecht

For instance, the notion of non-penal substitution. This idea, found in the work of the nineteenth century Scottish Reformed theologian John McLeod Campbell and…

— Oliver D. Crisp

“The text begins by saying that the gods Anu, Enlil and Marduk – the leading deities of the Mesopotamian pantheon – appointed Hammurabi ‘to…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“But the punishment-body relation is not the same as it was in the torture during public executions. The body now serves as an instrument…

— Michel Foucault

“Is it not true that in ancient times the worst punishment of all was not death, but banishment?”

— Jean Said Makdisi

“But a punishment like forced labour or even imprisonment – mere loss of liberty – has never functioned without a certain additional element of…

— Michel Foucault