Stephanie J. Snow (Centre for the History of Sc Research Associate

Blessed Days of Anaesthesia

How Anaesthetics Changed the World

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Produktbeschreibung

Among the great discoveries of the nineteenth century, few offer a more fascinating insight into Victorian society than the new science of anaesthesia. This vivid and engaging history reveals how the worlds of Victorian medics, moralists, and clergymen were plunged into turmoil and debate by the discovery and introduction of anaesthetic medicine.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• New ed.
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 186g
• ISBN-13: 9780192805898
• ISBN-10: 0192805894
• Artikelnr.: 26424767

Autorenporträt

Stephanie Snow is a Research Associate at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at the University of Manchester. She wrote her PhD thesis on the life and work of John Snow (1813-1858), and is the author of Operations Without Pain: The practice and science of anaesthesia in Victorian Britain (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006).

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction
2: Discoveries
3: Anaesthesia in Action
4: Women, Sex and Suffering
5: On Battlefields
6: The Dark Side of Chloroform
7: Changed Understandings of Pain
8: Into the Twentieth Century and Beyond
Endnotes
Further reading

Rezensionen

Excellent...an exemplary popular history of anasthesia in nineteenth-century Europe and the USA...a remarkable achievement, one that deserves to become both a classic of popular medical history and a staple of undergraduate reading lists. Richard Barnett, Social History of Medicine 23:2