Operations Without Pain: The Practice and Science of Anaesthesia in Victorian Britain (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781403934451)

The introduction of anaesthesia to Victorian Britain marked a defining moment between modern medicine and earlier practices. This book uses new information from John Snow's casebooks and London hospital archives to revise many of the existing historical assumptions about the early history of surgical anaesthesia. By examining complex patterns of innovation, reversals, debate and geographical difference, Stephanie Snow shows how anaesthesia became established as a routine part of British medicine.

Author: S. Snow
ISBN-10: 1403934452
ISBN-13: 9781403934451
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 12/16/2005
Pages: 271
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.03lbs
Size: 8.86h x 6.32w x 0.81d