Buch, Englisch, Band 70, 362 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 726 g
Reihe: Clio Medica
British Surgery, 1790-1850
Buch, Englisch, Band 70, 362 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 726 g
Reihe: Clio Medica
ISBN: 978-90-420-1034-5
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi
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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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
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