Medical Theory, Surgical Practice: Studies in the History of Surgery

ISBN-13: 9780367030537 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 338 str.

Christopher Lawrence

Opis

Originally published in 1992, Medical Theory, Surgical Practice examines medical and surgical concepts of disease and their relation to the practice of surgery, in particular historical settings.

Spis treści

List of Figures  List of Contributors  Acknowledgements  1. Democratic, Divine and Heroic: The History and Historiography of Surgery  2. Seventeenth-Century English Surgery: The Casebook of Joseph Binns  3. Surgery and Scrophula  4. Giovanni Battista Morgagni and Eighteenth-Century Physical Examination  5. Physiological Principles in the Surgical Writings of John Hunter  6. Practising on Principle: Joseph Lister and the Germ Theories of Disease  7. From Conservative to Radical Surgery in Late Nineteenth-Century America  8. Knowledge of Bodies or Bodies of Knowledge? Surgeons and Anatomists and Rectal Surgery, 1830-1985  9. Experiment and Experience in Anaesthesia: Alfred Goodman Levy and Chloroform Death 1910-1960  10. The Ambiguous Artefact: Surgical Instruments and the Surgical Past  Index

O autorze

Christopher Lawrence