Belly-Rippers, Surgical Innovation and the Ovariotomy Controversy.
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Superior document: | Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History Series |
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Place / Publishing House: | Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2019. ©2018. |
Year of Publication: | 2019 |
Edition: | 1st ed. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History Series
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (277 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- A Gendered Operation?
- Ovariotomy and Innovation
- The Distinctiveness of Surgical Innovation
- Sources
- Outline of the Book
- Chapter 2 Pathologies, Actions, Ideas
- Heroes and Villains
- Locating the Pathological Ovary in Early Modern Medicine
- The Dropsical Patient
- Removing the Ovaries: A Disembodied Technique
- Conclusion
- Chapter 3 Creating a Surgical Controversy
- From Kentucky to Edinburgh to the Pages of the Lancet: Ovarian Surgery in the Early Nineteenth Century
- Progress or Culpable Homicide?
- Who's Responsible? Patients, Risk and Emotive Accounts
- 'An Eminently Uncertain Operation': Ovariotomy and the Trouble with Statistics
- Conclusion
- Chapter 4 Patent Concerns, Unpatentable Procedures
- Situating Surgical Credit
- 'Attempting to Bind the Winds': The Unpatentability of Surgery
- Clay's Adhesion Clam and the Pedicle Dispute
- Uneasy Pioneers: Thomas Spencer Wells and Charles Clay
- Imitations and Imports: Ovariotomy on the Global Stage
- Conclusion
- Chapter 5 The Business of Surgery
- Medicine, Money and Morality
- The Operator Becomes the Ovariotomist: Specialism and Private Practice
- Surgical Fees: Determining the Cost of Ovariotomy
- Oöphorectomy, Operative Mania and Surgical Consumption
- Conclusion
- Chapter 6 The Afterlife of an Operation
- Narratives of Victory
- All in a Name? Decline, Diffusion and Surgical Linguistics
- Afterlives: Patient Experiences After Ovarian Surgery
- Could Ovariotomy Ever Have Been Conservative?
- Disbelief and Nostalgia: How Surgeons Used History to Make Sense of Ovariotomy
- Conclusion
- Chapter 7 Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index.