{"product_id":"for-fear-of-pain-british-surgery-1790-1850-9789042010246","title":"For Fear of Pain: British Surgery, 1790-1850","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor Fear of Pain offers a social history of the operating room in Britain during the final decades of painful surgery. It asks profound questions: how could surgeons operate upon conscious patients? How could patients submit? It presents a revisionist view of surgery, hygiene, nursing, military and naval surgery and the introduction of anaesthesia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e”…an excellent and useful book.”  - in: Wellcome History, Vol. 29, 2005    “…innovative historical focus […] eloquent descriptions […] More clearly than in any other historical account, Stanley delineates and substantiates the “inescapable tension” that surgeons faced…”  - in: The Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Vol. 78, 2004    “…a very valuable and interesting book.”  - in: Health and History, Vol. 5, No. 2, 2003, pp.156-158    “…this book is a well-organized graphic account told with humility and intense feeling for all those facing ‘The Fear of Pain.’”  - in: Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, Vol. 21, No. 1, 2004, pp.195-19\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements  Abbreviations  Prologue  Introduction: ‘Painful, difficult, bloody, tedious and dangerous’    1 ‘Surgeons and operators’: The Surgeons’ World  2 ‘Modern surgeons’: Medical Knowledge and Surgery  3 ‘Capital operations’: Major Surgery  4 ‘A hard set of butchers’?: Wartime Surgery, 1793-1815  5 ‘In process of cure’: Hospitals and Surgical Healing  6 ‘Gennelmen!’: Medical Students  7 ‘The living subject’: Surgeons and Patients  8 ‘The cutting part’: In the Operating Room  9 ‘Our little patient’: Surgeons and Children  10 ‘Fortitude’: The Patient’s Experience of Surgery  11 ‘The rights of pain’: The Acceptance of Anaesthesia    Epilogue  ‘Long fixed in the memory’: The Legacy of Painful Surgery  Image Credits  Bibliography  Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210890994007,"sku":"9789042010246","price":54.52,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/for-fear-of-pain-british-surgery-1790-1850-9789042010246","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}