Medical Theory, Surgical Practice Studies in the History of Surgery Routledge Library Editions: History of Medicine Series
Coordonnateur : Lawrence Christopher
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. It emphasises that understanding concepts of disease does not just include recounting explicit accounts of disease given by medical men. It needs an analysis of the social relations embedded in such concepts. In doing this, the contributors illustrate how surgery rose from a relatively humble place in seventeenth century life to being seen as one of the great achievements of late Victorian culture. They examine how medical theory and surgical practices relate to social contexts, how physical diagnosis entered medicine and whether anaesthesia and Lister?s antiseptic techniques really did cause a revolution in surgical practice.
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
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De Sedibus; Levy’s Work; Medical Theory; Anal Canal; Surgical Practices; External Sphincter; Historiography of Surgery; Antiseptic Surgery; History of Surgery; Pelvic Floor; Seventeenth-Century English Surgery; Ano Rectal Ring; English Surgery; Internal Sphincter; Joseph Binns; Conservative Surgery; Scrophula; Royal Touch; Giovanni Battista Morgagni; Eighteenth Century Medicine; Eighteenth Century Physical Examinations; Eighteenth Century Physician; Physical Examinations; Antiseptic Treatment; Physiological Principles; Levator Ani; Surgical Writings of John Hunter; Rectal Disease; John Hunter; Spina Ventosa; Joseph Lister; Surgical Instruments; Germ Theories of Disease; Rectal Surgery; Medical Practices; Pelvic Floor Disorders; Radical Surgery; Rectal Surgeons; Surgery in late Nineteenth-Century America; Marischal College; Knowledge of Bodies; Hunter’s Conception; Surgeons; Radical Neck Dissection; Anatomists; St Mark’s Hospital; Ventricular Fibrillation; Anaesthesia; Alfred Goodman Levy; Chloroform; Chloroform Death; Surgical Past; Lucinda McCray Beier; Roger French; Malcolm Nicolson; Stephen Jacyna; Richard Dixey; Gert H; Brieger; Lindsay Granshaw; Ghislaine Lawrence