For fear of pain : British surgery, 1790-1850 /
Stanley, Peter,1956-
Amsterdam : Rodopi,
2003.
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.
"Bibliography": p. 325-348.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Surgery
Pain