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Operations Without Pain: The Practice and Science of Anaesthesia in Victorian Britain

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  • © 2006

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  1. Stephanie J. Snow
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Part of the book series: Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History (STMMH)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    • Stephanie J. Snow
    Pages 1-9

  3. From Enlightenment Philosophies to Victorian Reform, 1790–1846

    • Stephanie J. Snow
    Pages 10-39

  4. Altered States

    • Stephanie J. Snow
    Pages 40-73

  5. Science Versus Empiricism

    • Stephanie J. Snow
    Pages 74-92

  6. Risks of Life and Birth

    • Stephanie J. Snow
    Pages 93-122

  7. Anaesthesia in London: John Snow’s Casebooks

    • Stephanie J. Snow
    Pages 123-151

  8. In the Name of Safety

    • Stephanie J. Snow
    Pages 152-182

  9. Conclusion: The History of Anaesthesia

    • Stephanie J. Snow
    Pages 183-199

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 200-271
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About this book

The introduction of anaesthesia to Victorian Britain marked a defining moment between modern medicine and earlier practices. This book uses new information from John Snow's casebooks and London hospital archives to revise many of the existing historical assumptions about the early history of surgical anaesthesia. By examining complex patterns of innovation, reversals, debate and geographical difference, Stephanie Snow shows how anaesthesia became established as a routine part of British medicine.

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'Snow's prose is lucid and expressive, her theses insightful, her conclusions illuminating and well supported... This book deserves to become both a standard reference work for students of Victorian medicine and a template for future workers in this field.' - Medical History

'Operations without pain is a meticulously written book that also deals largely with historical aspects of pain...she [Stephanie J. Snow] sheds fascinating light on the medical scenes in America and Victorian Britain.' - Brain

About the author

STEPHANIE SNOW is a Wellcome Research Fellow at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester, UK.

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