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For Fear of Pain: British Surgery, 1790-1850 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789042010246)
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xOh, 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.
Author: Peter Stanley
ISBN-10: 904201024X
ISBN-13: 9789042010246
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2003
Pages: 362
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.13lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.10w x 0.82d
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.
Author: Peter Stanley
ISBN-10: 904201024X
ISBN-13: 9789042010246
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2003
Pages: 362
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.13lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.10w x 0.82d
By Peter Stanley
xDr 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.
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