Title: For Fear of Pain
First published: May 2003
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.
Subjects: Surgery, History, Pain, History of Medicine, 19th Cent, Surgery, history, Medicine, great britain, General Surgery, History, 19th Century, Chirurgie (geneeskunde), Social aspects, 19th century