D. de Moulin

A history of surgery

with emphasis on the Netherlands

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Surgery as a medical discipline has from its beginnings appealed to the imagination of many. It is therefore not surprising to find that its colourful past has induced quite a few authors to take up their pens. The truth of this in the Netherlands is witnessed by a number of dissertations and monographs and especially by the numerous articles related to the history of surgery which have appeared in the medical weekly Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde, particularly during the two decades preceding the Second World War. The memorial volume, published in 1977 by the 'Nederlandse Vereniging voor Heelkunde' (Association of Surgeons of the Netherlands) has thoroughly covered the history of Dutch surgery since the tum of the century, but a chronological survey of the earlier events which led to these modem achievements is still wanting. This book has been written with a view to meeting this need. In it, Dutch surgery has by no means been taken as an isolated phenomenon, but considered in its context with European surgery as a whole. Foreign influences on the on surgery abroad are discussed Netherlands and, conversely, Dutch influences whilst contemporary medical thinking is set against a cultural and political back ground. It is hoped that this approach will allow the book to exceed the narrow boundaries of'campanilismo' and make it of interest to non-Dutch readers as well.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer / Springer Netherlands
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-94-010-8008-8
• 1988
• Seitenzahl: 436
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 155mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 657g
• ISBN-13: 9789401080088
• ISBN-10: 9401080089
• Artikelnr.: 39496986

Inhaltsangabe

1: The Roots of Western Surgery.- 1.1. Antiquity.- 1.2. The Muslim world.- 2: The Western Middle Ages.- 2.1. The early Middle Ages.- 2.2. The late Middle Ages.- 3: The Renaissance.- 3.1. The rise of the Republic of the United Provinces.- 3.4. Anatomy as a basic surgical science.- 3.5. Surgical literature.- 3.6. Towards a more operative form of surgery.- 3.7. Surgical pharmaceutics (Materia chirurgica).- 4: The Golden Age.- 4.1. Political and economical history.- 4.2. Cultural life.- 4.3. Universities.- 4.4. Trends in medicine.- 4.5. Anatomy.- 4.6. Physiology.- 4.7. Experimental surgery.- 4.8. Scientific communication.- 4.9. Superstition.- 4.10. Surgery as a social phenomenon.- 4.11. Hospitals and hospital surgeons.- 4.12. Military surgeons.- 4.13. Traditional cutters.- 4.14 Bonesetters.- 4.15 The relationship between surgeons and physicians.- 4.16 Professional literature.- 4.17 Obstetrics.- 5: The Age of Enlightenment.- 5.1. Cultural setting.- 5.2. Medicine.- 5.3. Surgery.- 6: Practical Surgery in The 17Th and 18Th Centuries.- 6.1. General introduction.- 6.2. Soft part injuries.- 6.3. Bone and joint surgery.- 6.4. Head injuries.- 6.5. Vascular surgery.- 6.6. Tumour surgery.- 6.7. Hernia.- 6.8. Bladder stone.- 6.9. Resuscitation.- 6.10. The surgeon's tools.- 7: The Beginning of Modern Surgery.- 7.1. The political history of the Netherlands in the nineteenth century.- 7.2. Medical science in the first half of the nineteenth century.- 7.3. Surgery in the first half of the nineteenth century.- 7.4. New developments towards the middle of the nineteenth century.- 8: Antisepsis: A Turning Point in Surgery.- 8.1. Hospital surgical departments in the sixties of the last century.- 8.2. Classification of wound diseases.- 8.3. Aetiology of wound diseases.- 8.4. Antisepsis andasepsis.- 8.5. The introduction of antisepsis in the Netherlands.- 8.6. Bacteriology.- 8.7. New university clinics.- 8.8. Modern nursing.- 9: The German Period in Dutch Surgery.- 9.1. The supremacy of German-Austrian surgery.- 9.2. Following the German lead; foundation of the Association of Surgeons of the Netherlands.- 9.3. The growth of surgery as a modern specialty in the Netherlands.- 9.4. Operative surgery.- 9.5. Anaesthesia and shock management.- 9.6. The First World War.- 10: Surgery in The Past 75 Years.- 10.1. Between the two World Wars.- 10.2. German occupation of Holland 1940-1945.- 10.3. Surgery after the Second World War.- 10.4. Epilogue.- Notes and References.- Index of names.

Rezensionen

`This book is a splendid concise history of several thousand years of Western surgery ..., a comprehensible and readable overview of the history of surgery which will prove useful to teachers and researchers.'
Toby Gelfand, Bulletin of Historical Medicine, 1989, no. 63.