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Operations Without Pain : The Practice and Science of Anaesthesia in Victorian Britain /

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 su...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Snow, Stephanie J. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Series:Science, technology, and medicine in modern history.
Subjects:
History.
Cultural History.
History of Medicine.
History of Science.
Social History.
World History, Global and Transnational History.
Civilization > History.
Medicine > History.
Social history.
World history.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary: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.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (XII, 271 pages)
ISBN:9780230209497
DOI:10.1057/9780230209497