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The Palgrave Handbook of the History of Surgery

The Palgrave Handbook of the History of Surgery


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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.


About the Author:

Thomas Schlich, MD, is James McGill Professor in the History of Medicine at the Department Social Studies of Medicine at McGill University, Canada, and has a double qualification as physician and historian. His research interests include the history of modern medicine and science from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century. He has previously written books on transplantation, and on operative fracture care as a domain where surgery, science, and industry come together. He is currently working on a monograph about the emergence of modern surgery, 1800-1914.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781349952595
  • Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
  • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
  • Edition: 1st ed. 2018
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 1060 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1349952591
  • Publisher Date: 25 Jan 2018
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 578
  • Spine Width: 33 mm
  • Width: 156 mm


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