Author: Peter Stanley

Publisher: Rodopi

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9789042010246

For Fear of Pain offers a social history of the operating room in Britain during the final decades of painful surgery. It asks profound questions: how could surgeons operate upon conscious patients? How could patients submit? It presents a revisionist view of surgery, hygiene, nursing, military and naval surgery and the introduction of anaesthesia.