This is the PDF eBook version for The Palgrave Handbook of the History of Surgery by Thomas Schlich
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction: What is Special About the History of Surgery?; Thomas Schlich.- Periods and Topics.- Chapter 2: Surgery and its Histories: Purposes and Contexts; Christopher Lawrence.- Chapter 3: Pre-Modern Surgery: Wounds, Words, and the Paradox of “Tradition”; Faith Wallis.- Chapter 4: Medicalizing the Surgical Trade, 1650-1820: Workers, Knowledge and Economy; Christelle Rabier.- Chapter 5: Surgery Becomes a Specialty: Professional Boundaries and Surgery; Peter Kernahan.- Chapter 6: Between Human and Veterinary Medicine: The History of Animals and Surgery; Abigail Woods.- Chapter 7: Women in Surgery: Patients and Practitioners; Claire Brock.- Chapter 8: Nursing and Surgery: Professionalisation, Education and Innovation; Rosemary Wall and Christine E. Hallett.- Chapter 9: Opening the Abdomen: The Expansion of Surgery; Sally Frampton.- Chapter 10: Surgery and Anaesthesia: Revolutions in Practice; Stephanie J Snow.- Chapter 11: The History of Surgical Wound Infection: Revolution or Evolution?; Michael Worboys.- Chapter 12: Surgical Instruments: History and Historiography; Claire Jones.- Links.- Chapter 13: Surgery and Architecture: Spaces for Operating; Annmarie Adams.- Chapter 14: Visualizing Surgery: Surgeons’ Use of Images, 1600–present; Harriet Palfreyman and Christelle Rabier.- Chapter 15: Art and Surgery: The Expert Hands of Artists and Surgeons; Mary Hunter.- Chapter 16: Surgery and Emotion: The Era before Anaesthesia; Michael Brown.- Chapter 17: Surgery and Popular Culture: Situating the Surgeon and the Surgical Experience in Popular Media; Susan E. Lederer.- Chapter 18: Surgery, Imperial Rule and Colonial Societies (1800-1930): Technical, Institutional and Social Histories; Kieran Fitzpatrick.- Chapter 19: Surgery and War: The Discussions About the Usefulness of War for Medical Progress; Leo van Bergen.- Areas and Technologies.- Chapter 20: Transplantation Surgery: Organ Replacement Between Reductionism and Systemic Approaches; Sibylle Obrecht.- Chapter 21: Opening the Skull: Neurosurgery as a Case Study of Surgical Specialisation; Delia Gavrus.- Chapter 22: Cancer: Radical Surgery and the Patient; David Cantor.- Chapter 23: Surgery and Clinical Trials: The History and Controversies of Surgical Evidence; David Jones.- Chapter 24: A Revolution through the Keyhole: Technology, Innovation, and the Rise of Minimally Invasive Surgery;Nicholas Whitfield.- Chapter 25: Bariatric and Cosmetic Surgery: Shifting Rationales in Contemporary Surgical Practices; Jean-Philippe Gendron.