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Belly-Rippers, Surgical Innovation and the Ovariotomy Controversy.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Frampton, Sally.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2019.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History Series
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Chapter 1 Introduction
  • A Gendered Operation?
  • Ovariotomy and Innovation
  • The Distinctiveness of Surgical Innovation
  • Sources
  • Outline of the Book
  • Chapter 2 Pathologies, Actions, Ideas
  • Heroes and Villains
  • Locating the Pathological Ovary in Early Modern Medicine
  • The Dropsical Patient
  • Removing the Ovaries: A Disembodied Technique
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 3 Creating a Surgical Controversy
  • From Kentucky to Edinburgh to the Pages of the Lancet: Ovarian Surgery in the Early Nineteenth Century
  • Progress or Culpable Homicide?
  • Who's Responsible? Patients, Risk and Emotive Accounts
  • 'An Eminently Uncertain Operation': Ovariotomy and the Trouble with Statistics
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 4 Patent Concerns, Unpatentable Procedures
  • Situating Surgical Credit
  • 'Attempting to Bind the Winds': The Unpatentability of Surgery
  • Clay's Adhesion Clam and the Pedicle Dispute
  • Uneasy Pioneers: Thomas Spencer Wells and Charles Clay
  • Imitations and Imports: Ovariotomy on the Global Stage
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 5 The Business of Surgery
  • Medicine, Money and Morality
  • The Operator Becomes the Ovariotomist: Specialism and Private Practice
  • Surgical Fees: Determining the Cost of Ovariotomy
  • Oöphorectomy, Operative Mania and Surgical Consumption
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 6 The Afterlife of an Operation
  • Narratives of Victory
  • All in a Name? Decline, Diffusion and Surgical Linguistics
  • Afterlives: Patient Experiences After Ovarian Surgery
  • Could Ovariotomy Ever Have Been Conservative?
  • Disbelief and Nostalgia: How Surgeons Used History to Make Sense of Ovariotomy
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 7 Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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