Belly-Rippers, Surgical Innovation and the Ovariotomy Controversy
Sally Frampton
Springer International Publishing AG, 2019
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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. 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.
- ISBN-13
- 9783319786100
- ISBN-10
- 3319786105
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG
- Year
- 2019
- Publication date
- 2019-01-15
- Pages
- 267
- Dimensions
- 155x217x23
- Weight
- 462