Belly-rippers, surgical innovation and the ovariotomy controversy / / Sally Frampton.
This open access book looks at the dramatic history of ovariotomy, an operation to remove ovarian tumours first practiced in the early nineteenth century. Bold and daring, surgeons who performed it claimed to be initiating a new era of surgery by opening the abdomen. Ovariotomy soon occupied a compl...
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| Superior document: | Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cham : : Springer International Publishing :, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,, 2018. |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Edition: | First edition 2018. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; illustrations (black and white, and colour) |
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