Emotions and Surgery in Britain, 1793–1912

Author:   Michael Brown (Lancaster University)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
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9781108792233


Pages:   324
Publication Date:   08 May 2025
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Michael Brown (Lancaster University)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
ISBN:  

9781108792233


ISBN 10:   1108792235
Pages:   324
Publication Date:   08 May 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. Between art and artifice: emotion and performance in Romantic surgery; 2. Anxiety and compassion: emotional intersubjectivity and the Romantic surgical relationship; 3. The patient's voice: conscious and unconscious agency in Romantic surgery; 4. 'Scenes of cruelty and blood': emotion, melodrama, and the politics of Romantic surgical reform; 5. Quiescent bodies: utilitarianism and the reconfiguration of surgical emotion; 6. The 'new world of surgery': sepsis, sentiment, and scientific modernity; Epilogue: new pasts, new futures.

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'Pain and compassion, sentiment and science: these are the themes that Michael Brown explores in his history of surgery. By fusing the history of emotions with the history of medicine, Brown sheds new light on clinical interactions. The book is an original and enthralling account of the emotional lives of surgeons.' Joanna Bourke, Birkbeck, University of London 'Based on a wealth of new and relevant sources, this book analyses the story of a key period in the history of modern surgery in a novel and original way. In combining the history of emotions with the history of surgery it is a model of what professional history of medicine can and should do.' Thomas Schlich, McGill University


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Michael Brown is a historian at Lancaster University. He is co-editor of Martial Masculinities: Experiencing and Imagining the Military in the Long Nineteenth Century (2019) and author of Performing Medicine: Medical Culture and Identity in Provincial England, c.1760-1850 (2011), as well as numerous articles on the history of medicine, war, gender, and emotion. Between 2016 and 2021 he was the Principal Investigator on the Wellcome Trust Investigator Award project Surgery & Emotion (108667/Z/15/Z).

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