The Palgrave handbook of the history of surgery / Thomas Schlich, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schlich, Thomas, editor.

ProQuest ebook central

Series:

PALGRAVE HANDBOOKS.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Surgery--History--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Surgery.

General Surgery--history.

History, Modern 1601-.

Medical Subjects:

General Surgery--history.

History, Modern 1601-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

London : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

Language Note:

English.

System Details:

text file PDF

Summary:

This handbook covers the technical, social and cultural history of surgery. It reflects the state of the art and suggests directions for future research. It discusses what is different and specific about the history of surgery - a manual activity with a direct impact on the patients body.䨥 individual entries in the handbook function as starting points for anyone who wants to obtain up-to-date information about an area in the history of surgery for purposes of research or for general orientation. Written by 26 experts from 6 countries, the chapters discuss the essential topics of the field (such as anaesthesia, wound infection, instruments, specialization), specific domains areas (for example, cancer surgery, transplants, animals, war), but also innovative themes (women, popular culture, nursing, clinical trials) and make connections to other areas of historical research (such as the history of emotions, art, architecture, colonial history).èapters 16 and 18 of this book are available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com

Contents:

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.

Notes:

"Palgrave Handbooks"--Cover.

Includes index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed December 29, 2017).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Printed edition:

ISBN:

9781349952601

1349952605

Publisher Number:

90101165819

99975304193

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.