The Palgrave Handbook of the History of Surgery 1st Edition Thomas Schlich 9781349952601 1349952605

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• ISBN 10: 1349952605
• ISBN 13: 9781349952601 
• Author: Thomas Schlich

This handbook covers the technical, social and cultural history of surgery. It reflects the state of the art and suggests directions for future research. It discusses what is different and specific about the history of surgery – a manual activity with a direct impact on the patient’s body. The individual entries in the handbook function as starting points for anyone who wants to obtain up-to-date information about an area in the history of surgery for purposes of research or for general orientation. Written by 26 experts from 6 countries, the chapters discuss the essential topics of the field (such as anaesthesia, wound infection, instruments, specialization), specific domains areas (for example, cancer surgery, transplants, animals, war), but also innovative themes (women, popular culture, nursing, clinical trials) and make connections to other areas of historical research (such as the history of emotions, art, architecture, colonial history).  Chapters 16 and 18 of this book are available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com

Table contents:

Part 1. Periods and Topics
Surgery and Its Histories: Purposes and Contexts
Pre-modern Surgery: Wounds, Words, and the Paradox of ‘Tradition’
Medicalizing the Surgical Trade, 1650–1820: Workers, Knowledge, Markets and Politics
Surgery Becomes a Specialty: Professional Boundaries and Surgery
Between Human and Veterinary Medicine: The History of Animals and Surgery
Women in Surgery: Patients and Practitioners
Nursing and Surgery: Professionalisation, Education and Innovation
Opening the Abdomen: The Expansion of Surgery
Surgery and Anaesthesia: Revolutions in Practice
The History of Surgical Wound Infection: Revolution or Evolution?
Surgical Instruments: History and Historiography
Part 2. Links
Surgery and Architecture: Spaces for Operating
Visualizing Surgery: Surgeons’ Use of Images, 1600–Present
Art and Surgery: The Expert Hands of Artists and Surgeons
Surgery and Emotion: The Era Before Anaesthesia
Surgery and Popular Culture: Situating the Surgeon and the Surgical Experience in Popular Media
Surgery, Imperial Rule and Colonial Societies (1800–1930): Technical, Institutional and Social Histories
Surgery and War: The Discussions About the Usefulness of War for Medical Progress
Part 3. Areas and Technologies
Transplantation Surgery: Organ Replacement Between Reductionism and Systemic Approaches
Opening the Skull: Neurosurgery as a Case Study of Surgical Specialisation
Cancer: Radical Surgery and the Patient
Surgery and Clinical Trials: The History and Controversies of Surgical Evidence
Bariatric and Cosmetic Surgery: Shifting Rationales in Contemporary Surgical Practices
A Revolution Through the Keyhole: Technology, Innovation, and the Rise o

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