Emotions and surgery in Britain, 1793-1912
In this innovative analytical account of the place of emotion and embodiment in nineteenth-century British surgery, Michael Brown examines the changing emotional dynamics of surgical culture for both surgeons and patients from the pre-anaesthetic era through the introduction of anaesthesia and antis...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press
2023.
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| Edition: | First edition |
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009684440006719 |
Table of Contents:
- Between art and artifice : emotion and performance in Romantic surgery
- Anxiety and compassion : emotional intersubjectivity and the Romantic surgical relationship
- The patient's voice : conscious and unconscious agency in Romantic surgery
- 'Scenes of cruelty and blood' : emotion, melodrama, and the politics of Romantic surgical reform
- Quiescent bodies : utilitarianism and the reconfiguration of surgical emotion
- The 'new world of surgery' : sepsis, sentiment, and scientific modernity.
