For fear of pain : : British surgery, 1790-1850 / / Peter Stanley.

Oh, you hurt me, Sir! … are you going to do it again? – A patient, 1832 For Fear of Pain offers a social history of the operating room in Britain during the final decades of painful surgery. It asks profound questions: how could surgeons operate upon conscious patients? How could patients submit? It...

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Superior document:The Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine
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Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam ;, New York, NY : : Rodopi,, 2003.
Year of Publication:2003
Language:English
Series:Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine.
Physical Description:1 online resource (362 pages) :; illustrations.
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