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Author Snow, Stephanie J.

Title Blessed days of anaesthesia : how anaesthetics changed the world / Stephanie J. Snow.

Publication Info. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 226 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-213) and index.
Contents List of Illustrations; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 Discoveries; 3 Anaesthesia in Action; 4 Women, Sex, and Suffering; 5 On Battlefields; 6 The Dark Side of Chloroform; 7 Changed Understandings of Pain; 8 Into the Twentieth Century and Beyond; Endnotes; Further Reading; Index.
Summary Among the great discoveries of the nineteenth century, few offer a more fascinating insight into Victorian society than the new science of anaesthesia. This vivid and engaging history reveals how the worlds of Victorian medics, moralists, and clergymen were plunged into turmoil and debate by the discovery and introduction of anaesthetic medicine. - ;Among all the great discoveries and inventions of the nineteenth century, few offer us a more fascinating insight into Victorian society than the discovery of anaesthesia. Now considered to be one of the greatest inventions for humanity since the p.
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Subject Anesthesia -- History.
Anesthesia.
History.
History -- 19th century.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject History, Modern -- 20th century.
History, Modern.
Chronological Term 20th century
1800-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Snow, Stephanie J. Blessed days of anaesthesia. Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press, 2008 6611975640 9786611975647 (OCoLC)316829998
ISBN 0191539570 (electronic book)
9780191539572 (electronic book)
1281975648
9781281975645
9780192805867 (alkaline paper)
019280586X (alkaline paper)