TY  - GEN
T1  - Emotions and surgery in Britain, 1793-1912
A1  - Brown, Michael, 1977-
LA  - English
PP  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
YR  - 2023
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/Cambridge_open_access_CR9781108877237
AB  - In this innovative analytical account of the place of emotion and embodiment in nineteenth-century British surgery, Michael Brown examines the changing emotional dynamics of surgical culture for both surgeons and patients from the pre-anaesthetic era through the introduction of anaesthesia and antisepsis techniques. Drawing on diverse archival and published sources, Brown explores how an emotional regime of Romantic sensibility, in which emotions played a central role in the practice and experience of surgery, was superseded by one of scientific modernity, in which the emotions of both patient and practitioner were increasingly marginalised. Demonstrating that the cultures of contemporary surgery and the emotional identities of its practitioners have their origins in the cultural and conceptual upheavals of the later nineteenth century, this book challenges us to question our perception of the pre-anaesthetic period as an era of bloody brutality and casual cruelty. This title is also available as open access.
OP  - 310
NO  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 13 Oct 2022).
CN  - RD27.3.G7 B76 2023
SN  - 9781108877237 (ebook)
SN  - 9781108834841 (hardback)
SN  - 9781108792233 (paperback)
SN  - 9781108834841
KW  - Surgery : Great Britain : History : 18th century.
KW  - Surgery : Great Britain : History : 19th century.
KW  - Surgery : Great Britain : History : 20th century.
ER  -