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Oh, you hurt me, Sir! … are you going to do it again? – 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 ‘great men’ of contemporary medicine, by the young men who grew into surgeons, and by the patients whose ‘fortitude’ 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 ‘great men’ of contemporary medicine, by the young men who grew into surgeons, and by the patients whose ‘fortitude’ was so notable.
Price: $69.00
Pages: 362
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Clio Medica
Publication Date:
01 January 2003
ISBN: 9789042010246
Format: Paperback
”…an excellent and useful book.”
- in: Wellcome History, Vol. 29, 2005
“…innovative historical focus […] eloquent descriptions […] More clearly than in any other historical account, Stanley delineates and substantiates the “inescapable tension” that surgeons faced…”
- in: The Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Vol. 78, 2004
“…a very valuable and interesting book.”
- in: Health and History, Vol. 5, No. 2, 2003, pp.156-158
“…this book is a well-organized graphic account told with humility and intense feeling for all those facing ‘The Fear of Pain.’”
- in: Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, Vol. 21, No. 1, 2004, pp.195-19
- in: Wellcome History, Vol. 29, 2005
“…innovative historical focus […] eloquent descriptions […] More clearly than in any other historical account, Stanley delineates and substantiates the “inescapable tension” that surgeons faced…”
- in: The Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Vol. 78, 2004
“…a very valuable and interesting book.”
- in: Health and History, Vol. 5, No. 2, 2003, pp.156-158
“…this book is a well-organized graphic account told with humility and intense feeling for all those facing ‘The Fear of Pain.’”
- in: Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, Vol. 21, No. 1, 2004, pp.195-19
Dr Peter Stanley is Principal Historian at the Australian War Memorial, Australia’s national military museum. He is one of Australia’s 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.