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Libro 8 de 16: Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History

Frampton, Sally

 
9781013276477: Belly-Rippers, Surgical Innovation and the Ovariotomy Controversy
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ISBN 10: 1013276477 ISBN 13: 9781013276477
Editorial: Saint Philip Street Press, 2020

Sinopsis

This open access book looks at the dramatic history of ovariotomy, an operation to remove ovarian tumours first practiced in the early nineteenth century. Bold and daring, surgeons who performed it claimed to be initiating a new era of surgery by opening the abdomen. Ovariotomy soon occupied a complex position within medicine and society, as an operation which symbolised surgical progress, while also remaining at the boundaries of ethical acceptability. This book traces the operation’s innovation, from its roots in eighteenth-century pathology, through the denouncement of those who performed it as ’belly-rippers’, to its rapid uptake in the 1880s, when ovariotomists were accused of over-operating. Throughout the century, the operation was never a hair’s breadth from controversy.

This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work’s license are retained by the author or authors.

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Editorial
Saint Philip Street Press
Año de publicación
2020
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1013276477
ISBN 13 
9781013276477
Encuadernación
Tapa dura
Número de páginas
278
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