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For Fear of Pain
British Surgery, 1790-1850
Series: - Clio Medica Online, Volume: 70
- Clio Medica, Volume: 70
Author:
Oh, you hurt me, Sir! ⦠are you going to do it again? â A patient, 1832
For Fear of Pain offers a social history of the operating room in Britain during the final decades of painful surgery. It asks profound questions: how could surgeons operate upon conscious patients? How could patients submit? It presents a revisionist view of surgery, hygiene, nursing, military and naval surgery and the introduction of anaesthesia.
For Fear of Pain seeks to unite the clinical with the human. Drawing on fresh evidence, it offers powerful insights into the experience of painful surgery. It is populated by the characters, ambitions, and animosities of the âgreat menâ of contemporary medicine, by the young men who grew into surgeons, and by the patients whose âfortitudeâ was so notable.
For Fear of Pain offers a social history of the operating room in Britain during the final decades of painful surgery. It asks profound questions: how could surgeons operate upon conscious patients? How could patients submit? It presents a revisionist view of surgery, hygiene, nursing, military and naval surgery and the introduction of anaesthesia.
For Fear of Pain seeks to unite the clinical with the human. Drawing on fresh evidence, it offers powerful insights into the experience of painful surgery. It is populated by the characters, ambitions, and animosities of the âgreat menâ of contemporary medicine, by the young men who grew into surgeons, and by the patients whose âfortitudeâ was so notable.
Dr Peter Stanley is Principal Historian at the Australian War Memorial, Australiaâs national military museum. He is one of Australiaâs leading military historians, publishing mainly in Australian and British military history, including The Remote Garrison, Tarakan, White Mutiny and Alamein: the Australian Story. For Fear of Pain is his fourteenth book.
ââ¦an excellent and useful book.â
- in: Wellcome History, Vol. 29, 2005
ââ¦innovative historical focus [â¦] eloquent descriptions [â¦] More clearly than in any other historical account, Stanley delineates and substantiates the âinescapable tensionâ that surgeons facedâ¦â
- in: The Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Vol. 78, 2004
ââ¦a very valuable and interesting book.â
- in: Health and History, Vol. 5, No. 2, 2003, pp.156-158
ââ¦this book is a well-organized graphic account told with humility and intense feeling for all those facing âThe Fear of Pain.ââ
- in: Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, Vol. 21, No. 1, 2004, pp.195-19
- in: Wellcome History, Vol. 29, 2005
ââ¦innovative historical focus [â¦] eloquent descriptions [â¦] More clearly than in any other historical account, Stanley delineates and substantiates the âinescapable tensionâ that surgeons facedâ¦â
- in: The Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Vol. 78, 2004
ââ¦a very valuable and interesting book.â
- in: Health and History, Vol. 5, No. 2, 2003, pp.156-158
ââ¦this book is a well-organized graphic account told with humility and intense feeling for all those facing âThe Fear of Pain.ââ
- in: Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, Vol. 21, No. 1, 2004, pp.195-19
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Prologue
Introduction: âPainful, difficult, bloody, tedious and dangerousâ
1 âSurgeons and operatorsâ: The Surgeonsâ World
2 âModern surgeonsâ: Medical Knowledge and Surgery
3 âCapital operationsâ: Major Surgery
4 âA hard set of butchersâ?: Wartime Surgery, 1793-1815
5 âIn process of cureâ: Hospitals and Surgical Healing
6 âGennelmen!â: Medical Students
7 âThe living subjectâ: Surgeons and Patients
8 âThe cutting partâ: In the Operating Room
9 âOur little patientâ: Surgeons and Children
10 âFortitudeâ: The Patientâs Experience of Surgery
11 âThe rights of painâ: The Acceptance of Anaesthesia
Epilogue
âLong fixed in the memoryâ: The Legacy of Painful Surgery
Image Credits
Bibliography
Index
Abbreviations
Prologue
Introduction: âPainful, difficult, bloody, tedious and dangerousâ
1 âSurgeons and operatorsâ: The Surgeonsâ World
2 âModern surgeonsâ: Medical Knowledge and Surgery
3 âCapital operationsâ: Major Surgery
4 âA hard set of butchersâ?: Wartime Surgery, 1793-1815
5 âIn process of cureâ: Hospitals and Surgical Healing
6 âGennelmen!â: Medical Students
7 âThe living subjectâ: Surgeons and Patients
8 âThe cutting partâ: In the Operating Room
9 âOur little patientâ: Surgeons and Children
10 âFortitudeâ: The Patientâs Experience of Surgery
11 âThe rights of painâ: The Acceptance of Anaesthesia
Epilogue
âLong fixed in the memoryâ: The Legacy of Painful Surgery
Image Credits
Bibliography
Index