Operations Without Pain: The Practice and Science of Anaesthesia in Victorian Britain
Stephanie Snow
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Description for Operations Without Pain: The Practice and Science of Anaesthesia in Victorian Britain
paperback. Series: Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTB; MBX; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
The introduction of anaesthesia to Victorian Britain marked a defining moment between modern medicine and earlier practices. This book uses new information from John Snow's casebooks and London hospital archives to revise many of the existing historical assumptions about the early history of surgical anaesthesia. By examining complex patterns of innovation, reversals, debate and geographical difference, Stephanie Snow shows how anaesthesia became established as a routine part of British medicine.
The introduction of anaesthesia to Victorian Britain marked a defining moment between modern medicine and earlier practices. This book uses new information from John Snow's casebooks and London hospital archives to revise many of the existing historical assumptions about the early history of surgical anaesthesia. By examining complex patterns of innovation, reversals, debate and geographical difference, Stephanie Snow shows how anaesthesia became established as a routine part of British medicine.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
271
Condition
New
Series
Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History
Number of Pages
271
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349517183
SKU
V9781349517183
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Ref
99-15
About Stephanie Snow
STEPHANIE SNOW is a Wellcome Research Fellow at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester, UK.
Reviews for Operations Without Pain: The Practice and Science of Anaesthesia in Victorian Britain
'Snow's prose is lucid and expressive, her theses insightful, her conclusions illuminating and well supported... This book deserves to become both a standard reference work for students of Victorian medicine and a template for future workers in this field.' - Medical History 'Operations without pain is a meticulously written book that also deals largely with historical aspects ... Read more