Emotions and Surgery in Britain, 1793-1912

ISBN-13: 9781108834841 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022

Michael Brown

Opis

An innovative analytical account of the changing place of emotions in British surgery in the long nineteenth century.

Recenzje

'Based on a wealth of new and relevant sources, this book analyses the story of a key period in the history of modern surgery in a novel and original way. In combining the history of emotions with the history of surgery it is a model of what professional history of medicine can and should do.' Thomas Schlich, McGill University

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Between art and artifice: emotion and performance in Romantic surgery; 2. Anxiety and compassion: emotional intersubjectivity and the Romantic surgical relationship; 3. The patient's voice: conscious and unconscious agency in Romantic surgery; 4. 'Scenes of cruelty and blood': emotion, melodrama, and the politics of Romantic surgical reform; 5. Quiescent bodies: utilitarianism and the reconfiguration of surgical emotion; 6. The 'new world of surgery': sepsis, sentiment, and scientific modernity; Epilogue: new pasts, new futures.