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For Fear of Pain

British Surgery, 1790-1850

Häftad, Engelska, 2003

Av Peter Stanley

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Oh, you hurt me, Sir! … are you going to do it again? – A patient, 1832For 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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2003-01-01
Mått155 x 235 x 20 mm
Vikt576 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieClio Medica
Antal sidor362
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789042010246

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AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsPrologueIntroduction: ‘Painful, difficult, bloody, tedious and dangerous’1 ‘Surgeons and operators’: The Surgeons’ World2 ‘Modern surgeons’: Medical Knowledge and Surgery3 ‘Capital operations’: Major Surgery4 ‘A hard set of butchers’?: Wartime Surgery, 1793-18155 ‘In process of cure’: Hospitals and Surgical Healing6 ‘Gennelmen!’: Medical Students7 ‘The living subject’: Surgeons and Patients8 ‘The cutting part’: In the Operating Room9 ‘Our little patient’: Surgeons and Children10 ‘Fortitude’: The Patient’s Experience of Surgery11 ‘The rights of pain’: The Acceptance of AnaesthesiaEpilogue‘Long fixed in the memory’: The Legacy of Painful SurgeryImage CreditsBibliographyIndex

”…an excellent and useful book.”- in: Wellcome History, Vol. 29, 2005“…innovative historical focus […] eloquent descriptions […] More clearly than in any other historical account, Stanley delineates and substantiates the “inescapable tension” that surgeons faced…”- in: The Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Vol. 78, 2004“…a very valuable and interesting book.”- in: Health and History, Vol. 5, No. 2, 2003, pp.156-158“…this book is a well-organized graphic account told with humility and intense feeling for all those facing ‘The Fear of Pain.’”- in: Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, Vol. 21, No. 1, 2004, pp.195-19