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

List of contents

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

About the author

Christopher Lawrence

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Lawrence
• Assisted by: Christopher Lawrence (Editor), Lawrence Christopher (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9780367030193
• ISBN: 978-0-367-03019-3
• No. of pages: 342
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: History of Medicine; Routledge Library Editions: History of Medicine
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Surgery, HISTORY / General, History of Medicine