Cold, hard steel : : the myth of the modern surgeon / / Agnes Arnold-Forster.
Brilliant, volatile and invariably male, the surgeon stereotype is a widespread and instantly recognisable part of western culture. Setting out to anatomise this stereotype, Cold, Hard Steel offers an exciting new history of modern and contemporary British surgery. The book draws on archival materia...
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Arnold-Forster, Agnes, author. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8153-3217 http://viaf.org/viaf/12162236837913542738 Cold, hard steel : the myth of the modern surgeon / Agnes Arnold-Forster. 202306 Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2023 ©2023 1 online resource (ix, 284 pages) : digital file(s). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier data file rda Social Histories of Medicine Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction: Sir Lancelot Spratt and the myth of the modern surgeon -- 1 Self-made myths -- 2. Surgeons in film, fiction, and on TV screens -- 3. Surgical conduct and surgical communities -- 4. Gender in surgery -- 5. Race and ethnicity in surgery -- 6. Surgical time -- 7. Military myths and metaphors--Conclusion: moving myths -- Bibliography --Index. Brilliant, volatile and invariably male, the surgeon stereotype is a widespread and instantly recognisable part of western culture. Setting out to anatomise this stereotype, Cold, Hard Steel offers an exciting new history of modern and contemporary British surgery. The book draws on archival materials and original interviews with surgeons, analysing them alongside a range of fictional depictions, from the Doctor in the House novels to Mills & Boon romances and the pioneering soap opera Emergency Ward 10. Presenting a unique social, cultural and emotional history, it sheds light on the development and maintenance of the surgical stereotype and explains why it has proved so enduring. At the same time, the book explores the more candid and compassionate image of the surgeon that has begun to emerge in recent years, revealing how a series of high-profile memoirs both challenge the surgical stereotype and simultaneously confirm it. Students and academic historians of modern British medicine, healthcare, professional identity and the NHS. Surgeons, medical students and other healthcare professionals. Also available in print form. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) license. Agnes Arnold-Forster is a Chancellor's Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. In English. Description based on publisher-supplied metadata and e-publication, viewed August 14, 2023. Surgeons Great Britain History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85130761 Surgery Great Britain History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85130766 Surgery in literature. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94009107 Print version: Arnold-Forster, Agnes. Cold, hard steel. Manchester, UK. : Manchester University Press, 2023 9781526156624 Social histories of medicine. |
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