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For Fear of Pain : British Surgery, 1790-1850

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For Fear of Pain 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.

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Product Details
Editions Rodopi B.V.
9042010347 / 9789042010345
Hardback
01/01/2003
Netherlands
English
362 pages
155 x 230 mm, 739 grams
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