For Fear of Pain
Subtitle: British Surgery, 1790-1850 (Clio Medica 70) (Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine)
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: May 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9789042010246
Subjects: History of medicine; Surgery; Medical / Nursing; Medical; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Surgery - General; Anesthesiology; 19th century; Great Britain; History; Pain; Social aspects
Description: 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.