Oh, you hurt me, Sir! ...are you going to do it again? - A patient, 1832 For 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. For Fear of Pain seeks to unite the clinical with the human. Drawing on fresh evidence, it offers powerful insights into the experience of painful surgery. It is populated by...

Now You Can Build A Property Fortune (Working Part-time Hours) Too... Do you watch the property investment programmes thinking, "I should be doing that " ... but don't know where to start? Do you know someone who has made money out of property, want to do the same ... but are afraid of making a bad decision? Wouldn't you just love to get started ... if it wasn't for those nagging doubts at the back of your mind? Don't you wish there was a resource full of simple, easy to understand answers to all your questions - in plain English? Well now there is Written by a successful UK property...

In March 1952 Tom Stevens sailed from Southampton aboard the troopship Dilwara, one of the last generations of British soldiers to serve in the West Indies. How did I get here?, he asks. Tom s candid memoir describes his wartime childhood, disrupted by evacuation, the Swansea blitz, patchy schooling, his father s absence at war and his parents separation. He evokes with an engaging honesty the life of an infantryman in the garrison of Jamaica, the pleasures of tropical service and the temptations faced by a young man in uniform. Vividly recalled, Tom s memoir reveals how a young Welshman grew...