Belly-Rippers, Surgical Innovation and the Ovariotomy Controversy - Rilegato

Frampton, Sally

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ISBN 10: 3319786105 ISBN 13: 9783319786100

Casa editrice: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

Riassunto

This open access book looks at the dramatic history of ovariotomy, an operation to remove ovarian tumours first practiced in the early nineteenth century. Bold and daring, surgeons who performed it claimed to be initiating a new era of surgery by opening the abdomen. Ovariotomy soon occupied a complex position within medicine and society, as an operation which symbolised surgical progress, while also remaining at the boundaries of ethical acceptability. This book traces the operation’s innovation, from its roots in eighteenth-century pathology, through the denouncement of those who performed it as ‘belly-rippers’, to its rapid uptake in the 1880s, when ovariotomists were accused of over-operating. Throughout the century, the operation was never a hair’s breadth from controversy.

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Sally Frampton is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Oxford, UK. She has previously published on surgery in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and on the history of the medical press.

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This open access book looks at the dramatic history of ovariotomy, an operation to remove ovarian tumours first practiced in the early nineteenth century. Bold and daring, surgeons who performed it claimed to be initiating a new era of surgery by opening the abdomen. Ovariotomy soon occupied a complex position within medicine and society, as an operation which symbolised surgical progress, while also remaining at the boundaries of ethical acceptability. This book traces the operation s innovation, from its roots in eighteenth-century pathology, through the denouncement of those who performed it as belly-rippers , to its rapid uptake in the 1880s, when ovariotomists were accused of over-operating. Throughout the century, the operation was never a hair s breadth from controversy.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Palgrave Macmillan
• Data di pubblicazione: 2019
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3319786105
• ISBN 13: 9783319786100
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 267
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