With Words and Knives: Learning Medical Dispassion in Early Modern EnglandThe practice of medicine in the days before anaesthetics could often be a brutal and painful experience. In order to cure the patient, the medical practitioner was often required to inflict pain. In order to do so, it is clear that some sort of clinical detatchment must be developed. It is this detatchment with which this work is concerned. |
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| Title | With Words and Knives: Learning Medical Dispassion in Early Modern England The history of medicine in context |
| Author | Lynda Ellen Stephenson Payne |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2007 |
| ISBN | 0754636895, 9780754636892 |
| Length | 182 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Modern / General Medical / History |
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