Operations Without Pain: The Practice and Science of Anaesthesia in Victorian Britain

STEPHANIE SNOW is a Wellcome Research Fellow at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester, UK.

• List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction From Enlightenment Philosophies to Victorian Reform, 1790-1846 Altered States Science versus Empiricism Risks of Life and Birth Anaesthesia in London: John Snow's Casebooks In the Name of Safety Conclusion: The History of Anaesthesia Appendix Notes Bibliography Index

'Snow's prose is lucid and expressive, her theses insightful, her conclusions illuminating and well supported... This book deserves to become both a standard reference work for students of Victorian medicine and a template for future workers in this field.' - Medical History'Operations without pain is a meticulously written book that also deals largely with historical aspects of pain...she [Stephanie J. Snow] sheds fascinating light on the medical scenes in America and Victorian Britain.' - Brain