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.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (362 pages) :; illustrations. |
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| Summary: | 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 presents a revisionist view of surgery, hygiene, nursing, military and naval surgery and the introduction of anaesthesia. For Fear of Pain seeks to unite the clinical with the human. Drawing on fresh evidence, it offers powerful insights into the experience of painful surgery. It is populated by the characters, ambitions, and animosities of the ‘great men’ of contemporary medicine, by the young men who grew into surgeons, and by the patients whose ‘fortitude’ was so notable. |
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| Bibliography: | "Bibliography": pages 325-348. Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 900433355X |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Peter Stanley. |