For Fear of Pain

British Surgery, 1790-1850
Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-90-420-1024-6
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 70, 362 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 576 g

Reihe: Clio Medica

‘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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stanley, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Prologue

Introduction: ‘Painful, difficult, bloody, tedious and dangerous’

1 ‘Surgeons and operators’: The Surgeons’ World

2 ‘Modern surgeons’: Medical Knowledge and Surgery

3 ‘Capital operations’: Major Surgery

4 ‘A hard set of butchers’?: Wartime Surgery, 1793-1815

5 ‘In process of cure’: Hospitals and Surgical Healing

6 ‘Gennelmen!’: Medical Students

7 ‘The living subject’: Surgeons and Patients

8 ‘The cutting part’: In the Operating Room

9 ‘Our little patient’: Surgeons and Children

10 ‘Fortitude’: The Patient’s Experience of Surgery

11 ‘The rights of pain’: The Acceptance of Anaesthesia

Epilogue

‘Long fixed in the memory’: The Legacy of Painful Surgery

Image Credits

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Peter Stanley is Principal Historian at the Australian War Memorial, Australia’s national military museum. He is one of Australia’s leading military historians, publishing mainly in Australian and British military history, including The Remote Garrison, Tarakan, White Mutiny and Alamein: the Australian Story. For Fear of Pain is his fourteenth book.