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Palgrave handbook of the history of surgery
xix, 578 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Introduction: what is special about the history of surgery? -- Surgery and its histories: purposes and contexts -- Pre-modern surgery: wounds, words, and the paradox of 'tradition' -- Medicalizing the surgical trade, 1650-1820: workers, knowledge, markets and politics -- Surgery becomes a specialty: professional boundaries and surgery -- Between human and veterinary medicine: the history of animals and surgery -- Women in surgery: patients and practitioners -- Nursing and surgery: professionalisation, education and innovation -- Opening the abdomen: the expansion of surgery -- Surgery and anaesthesia: revolutions in practice -- The history of surgical wound infection: revolution or evolution? -- Surgical instruments: history and historiography -- Surgery and architecture: spaces for operating -- Visualizing surgery: surgeons' use of images, 1600-present -- Art and surgery: the expert hands of artists and surgeons -- Surgery and emotion: the era before anaesthesia -- Surgery and popular culture: situating the surgeon and the surgical experience in popular media -- Surgery, imperial rule and colonial societies (1800-1930): technical, institutional and social histories -- Surgery and war: the discussions about the usefulness of war for medical progress -- Transplantation surgery: organ replacement between reductionism and systemic approaches -- Opening the skull: neurosurgery as a case study of surgical specialisation -- Cancer: radical surgery and the patient -- Surgery and clinical trials: the history and controversies of surgical evidence -- Bariatric and cosmetic surgery: shifting rationales in contemporary surgical practices -- A revolution through the keyhole: technology, innovation, and the rise of minimally invasive surgery
Includes bibliographical references and index.