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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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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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