Author: United States. Surgeon-General's Office
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Published: 1883
Total Pages: 1208
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Christopher Lawrence
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-12-12
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 0429670710
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Originally published in 1992, Medical Theory, Surgical Practice examines medical and surgical concepts of disease and their relation to the practice of surgery, in particular historical settings. It emphasises that understanding concepts of disease does not just include recounting explicit accounts of disease given by medical men. It needs an analysis of the social relations embedded in such concepts. In doing this, the contributors illustrate how surgery rose from a relatively humble place in seventeenth century life to being seen as one of the great achievements of late Victorian culture. They examine how medical theory and surgical practices relate to social contexts, how physical diagnosis entered medicine and whether anaesthesia and Lister’s antiseptic techniques really did cause a revolution in surgical practice.
Author: Frederick Strange Kolle
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Published: 1911
Total Pages: 550
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Surgeon-General's Office
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 528
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: David Schneider
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2020-03-03
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 1643133896
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Written by an author with plenty of experience holding a scalpel, Dr. David Schneider’s The Invention of Surgery is an in-depth biography of the practice that has leapt forward over the centuries from the dangerous guesswork of ancient Greek physicians through the world-changing developments of anesthesia and antiseptic operating rooms to the “implant revolution” of the twentieth century.The Invention of Surgery is history of surgery that explains this dramatic, world-changing progress and highlights the personalities of the discipline's most dynamic historical figures. It links together the lives of the pioneering scientists who first understood what causes disease and how surgery could powerfully intercede in people’s lives, and then shows how the rise of surgery intersected with many of the greatest medical breakthroughs of the last century. And as Schneider argues, surgery has not finished transforming; new technologies are constantly reinventing both the practice of surgery and the nature of the objects we are permanently implanting in our bodies. Schneider considers these latest developments, asking “What’s next?” and analyzing how our conception of surgery has changed alongside our evolving ideas of medicine, technology, and our bodies.