A calculus of suffering
Subtitle: pain, professionalism, and anesthesia in nineteenth-century America
By: Martin S. Pernick.
Publisher: Columbia University Press; Columbia Univ Pr
Published: 1985
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 421
Subjects: Anesthesia -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Medicine -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Surgery -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Pain -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Anesthesiology -- history -- United States; History of Medicine, 19th Cent. -- United States
Notes: Bibliography: p. [349-397.
Includes index.