For Fear of Pain

By Peter Stanley

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 904201024X
• ISBN13: 9789042010246
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"