Emotions and surgery in Britain, 1793-1912 /

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 antis...

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Autor principal: Brown, Michael, 1977- (Autor)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Accés en línia:https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108877237
Taula de continguts:
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  • Anxiety and compassion : emotional intersubjectivity and the Romantic surgical relationship
  • The patient's voice : conscious and unconscious agency in Romantic surgery
  • 'Scenes of cruelty and blood' : emotion, melodrama, and the politics of Romantic surgical reform
  • Quiescent bodies : utilitarianism and the reconfiguration of surgical emotion
  • The 'new world of surgery' : sepsis, sentiment, and scientific modernity.