Belly-Rippers, Surgical Innovation and the Ovariotomy Controversy

2018
ISBN: 978-3-319-78610-0
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 267 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 483 g

Reihe: Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Frampton, Sally

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Chirurgie Abdominalchirurgie, Viszeralchirurgie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Chirurgie Onkologische Chirurgie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter One: Introduction.- Chapter Two: Pathologies, Actions, Ideas.-  Chapter Three: Representations of Practice.- Chapter Four: Patent Concerns, Unpatentable Procedures.- Chapter Five: The Business of Surgery.- Chapter Six: The Afterlife of an Operation.- Chapter Seven: Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

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.