Belly-Rippers, Surgical Innovation and the Ovariotomy Controversy

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 compl...

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Publicado en:Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
Autor Principal: Frampton, Sally
Formato: Livro
Idioma:Inglês
Publicado: Springer Nature 2018
Assuntos:
History
Social history
Medicine—History
Abdominal surgery
Sociology
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural history
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies, gender groups
thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBX History of medicine
thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MN Surgery::MNC General surgery
thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues::PDX History of science
Acceso en liña:https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/37286
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