Operations Without Pain: The Practice and Science of Anaesthesia in Victorian Britain (Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History)

Snow, S.

ISBN 10: 1403934452 / ISBN 13: 9781403934451

Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2006

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Operations Without Pain: The Practice and Science of Anaesthesia in Victorian Britain (Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History)
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1403934452
• ISBN 13: 9781403934451
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Like New
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

The introduction of anaesthesia to Victorian Britain marked a defining moment between modern medicine and earlier practices. This book uses new information from John Snow's casebooks and London hospital archives to revise many of the existing historical assumptions about the early history of surgical anaesthesia. By examining complex patterns of innovation, reversals, debate and geographical difference, Stephanie Snow shows how anaesthesia became established as a routine part of British medicine.

About the Author

STEPHANIE SNOW is a Wellcome Research Fellow at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester, UK.