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

by Stephanie J. Snow

Book Overview

Inhalational anaesthesia was the first medical and scientific technique to become a legitimate means of pain relief. Its introduction to medicine in 1846 sparked one of the most intense public debates of the period. It challenged religious principles and at its center posed one of medicine's fundamental questions: risk versus benefit of medical intervention. This book explains how the introduction of anaesthesia intertwines with a wide variety of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403934452
• ISBN13: 9781403934451
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 271 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 8.9"