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A calculus of suffering : pain, professionalism, and anesthesia in nineteenth-century America / Martin S. Pernick.
Barbara Bates Center for History of Nursing - Fagin Hall 2U RD80.3 .P47 1985
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pernick, Martin S.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Anesthesia--United States--History--19th century.
- Anesthesia.
- Medicine--United States--History--19th century.
- Medicine.
- Pain--Social aspects.
- History.
- Pain.
- Surgery.
- United States.
- Surgery--United States--History--19th century.
- Pain--Social aspects--United States--History--19th century.
- Anesthesiology--history.
- History, 19th Century.
- Medical Subjects:
- Anesthesiology--history.
- United States.
- History, 19th Century.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 421 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, 1985.
- Notes:
- Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.--Columbia University, 1979)
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages [349]-397.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0231051867
- OCLC:
- 10914467
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