Surgery and emotion the era before anaesthesia

This chapter explores the place of emotion within operative surgery. Before the advent of anaesthetics in the 1840s, surgical operations were conducted with little or no pain relief and were attended with great suffering and emotional distress. It has generally been assumed that in order to cope wit...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brown, Michael
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London Palgrave Macmillan 2018, [2018]
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Collection: National Center for Biotechnology Information - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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  • Includes bibliographical references