With Words and Knives
Lynda Payne
Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2007
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The practice of medicine in the days before the development of anaesthetics could often be a brutal and painful experience. This book explores the idea of medical dispassion and shows how practitioners developed the intellectual, verbal and manual skill of being able to replace passion with equanimity and distance.
- ISBN-13
- 9780754636892
- ISBN-10
- 0754636895
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Year
- 2007
- Publication date
- 2007-10-28
- Pages
- 194
- Dimensions
- 160x241x20
- Weight
- 442