Blessed days of anaesthesia : how anaesthetics changed the world / Stephanie J. Snow.

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Snow, Stephanie J

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 226 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

0191539570
9780191539572
1281975648
9781281975645
9786611975647
6611975640

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Blessed days of anaesthesia.DDC classification:

617.9/6/09 22 22

LOC classification:

RD79 .S66 2008eb

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Contents:

List of Illustrations; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 Discoveries; 3 Anaesthesia in Action; 4 Women, Sex, and Suffering; 5 On Battlefields; 6 The Dark Side of Chloroform; 7 Changed Understandings of Pain; 8 Into the Twentieth Century and Beyond; Endnotes; Further Reading; Index.

Summary: Among the great discoveries of the nineteenth century, few offer a more fascinating insight into Victorian society than the new science of anaesthesia. This vivid and engaging history reveals how the worlds of Victorian medics, moralists, and clergymen were plunged into turmoil and debate by the discovery and introduction of anaesthetic medicine. - ;Among all the great discoveries and inventions of the nineteenth century, few offer us a more fascinating insight into Victorian society than the discovery of anaesthesia. Now considered to be one of the greatest inventions for humanity since the p.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-213) and index.

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Among the great discoveries of the nineteenth century, few offer a more fascinating insight into Victorian society than the new science of anaesthesia. This vivid and engaging history reveals how the worlds of Victorian medics, moralists, and clergymen were plunged into turmoil and debate by the discovery and introduction of anaesthetic medicine. - ;Among all the great discoveries and inventions of the nineteenth century, few offer us a more fascinating insight into Victorian society than the discovery of anaesthesia. Now considered to be one of the greatest inventions for humanity since the p.

English.

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