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The Palgrave Handbook of the History of Surgery
Title
The Palgrave Handbook of the History of Surgery [electronic resource] / edited by Thomas Schlich.
ISBN
9781349952601
Publication
London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Physical Description
1 online resource (XIX, 578 p.) 25 illus., 17 illus. in color.
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Summary
This handbook covers the technical, social and cultural history of surgery. It reflects the state of the art and suggests directions for future research. It discusses what is different and specific about the history of surgery - a manual activity with a direct impact on the patient’s body. The individual entries in the handbook function as starting points for anyone who wants to obtain up-to-date information about an area in the history of surgery for purposes of research or for general orientation. Written by 26 experts from 6 countries, the chapters discuss the essential topics of the field (such as anaesthesia, wound infection, instruments, specialization), specific domains areas (for example, cancer surgery, transplants, animals, war), but also innovative themes (women, popular culture, nursing, clinical trials) and make connections to other areas of historical research (such as the history of emotions, art, architecture, colonial history). Chapters 16 and 18 of this book are available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com.
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 09, 2018
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction: What is Special About the History of Surgery?; Thomas Schlich
Periods and Topics
Chapter 2: Surgery and its Histories: Purposes and Contexts; Christopher Lawrence
Chapter 3: Pre-Modern Surgery: Wounds, Words, and the Paradox of "Tradition"; Faith Wallis
Chapter 4: Medicalizing the Surgical Trade, 1650-1820: Workers, Knowledge and Economy; Christelle Rabier
Chapter 5: Surgery Becomes a Specialty: Professional Boundaries and Surgery; Peter Kernahan
Chapter 6: Between Human and Veterinary Medicine: The History of Animals and Surgery; Abigail Woods
Chapter 7: Women in Surgery: Patients and Practitioners; Claire Brock
Chapter 8: Nursing and Surgery: Professionalisation, Education and Innovation; Rosemary Wall and Christine E. Hallett
Chapter 9: Opening the Abdomen: The Expansion of Surgery; Sally Frampton
Chapter 10: Surgery and Anaesthesia: Revolutions in Practice; Stephanie J Snow
Chapter 11: The History of Surgical Wound Infection: Revolution or Evolution?; Michael Worboys
Chapter 12: Surgical Instruments: History and Historiography; Claire Jones
Links
Chapter 13: Surgery and Architecture: Spaces for Operating; Annmarie Adams
Chapter 14: Visualizing Surgery: Surgeons’ Use of Images, 1600–present; Harriet Palfreyman and Christelle Rabier
Chapter 15: Art and Surgery: The Expert Hands of Artists and Surgeons; Mary Hunter
Chapter 16: Surgery and Emotion: The Era before Anaesthesia; Michael Brown
Chapter 17: Surgery and Popular Culture: Situating the Surgeon and the Surgical Experience in Popular Media; Susan E. Lederer
Chapter 18: Surgery, Imperial Rule and Colonial Societies (1800-1930): Technical, Institutional and Social Histories; Kieran Fitzpatrick
Chapter 19: Surgery and War: The Discussions About the Usefulness of War for Medical Progress; Leo van Bergen
Areas and Technologies
Chapter 20: Transplantation Surgery: Organ Replacement Between Reductionism and Systemic Approaches; Sibylle Obrecht
Chapter 21: Opening the Skull: Neurosurgery as a Case Study of Surgical Specialisation; Delia Gavrus
Chapter 22: Cancer: Radical Surgery and the Patient; David Cantor
Chapter 23: Surgery and Clinical Trials: The History and Controversies of Surgical Evidence; David Jones
Chapter 24: A Revolution through the Keyhole: Technology, Innovation, and the Rise of Minimally Invasive Surgery;Nicholas Whitfield
Chapter 25: Bariatric and Cosmetic Surgery: Shifting Rationales in Contemporary Surgical Practices; Jean-Philippe Gendron.
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