With Words and Knives: Learning Medical Dispassion in Early Modern England

כריכה קדמית
Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2007 - 182 עמודים
The practice of medicine in the days before anaesthetics could often be a brutal and painful experience. In order to cure the patient, the medical practitioner was often required to inflict pain. In order to do so, it is clear that some sort of clinical detatchment must be developed. It is this detatchment with which this work is concerned.
 

תוכן

Faithful Eyes
9
Rational Minds
35
Godly Hearts
59
Disciplined Hands
79
Necessary Inhumanity
103
Conversant with the Dead
125
Epilogue
153
Index
175
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מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל

מונחים וביטויים נפוצים

מידע על המחבר (2007)

Lynda Payne is Professor in the Department of History, at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA.

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