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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Thomas SchlichPublisher: Palgrave Macmillan Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Edition: 1st ed. 2018 Weight: 1.331kg ISBN: 9781349952595ISBN 10: 1349952591 Pages: 578 Publication Date: 25 January 2018 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsSurgery is approached as a specialized knowledge, as a technology, and as a social fact. ... it will be used by a wide range of readers, from surgeons to historians of the hospital ... . Chapters are divided in subsections identified by clear titles and the text includes references to notes (all grouped at the end of the chapters) together with a list of readings for further explorations. A substantial index ends the book. (Alain Touwaide, Doody's Book Reviews, October, 2018) The essays range from antiquity to today's bariatric, cosmetic and minimal access surgery, and are widely researched, clearly written and authoritative, backed up by extensive bibliographies. This is an important contribution to the subject of surgical history. It is not light reading, but it will be a valuable source book to anyone wishing to research in depth into any of its specialist topics. (Harold Ellis, British Journal of Hospital Medicine, Vol. 79 (3), March, 2018) “Surgery is approached as a specialized knowledge, as a technology, and as a social fact. … it will be used by a wide range of readers, from surgeons to historians of the hospital … . Chapters are divided in subsections identified by clear titles and the text includes references to notes (all grouped at the end of the chapters) together with a list of readings for further explorations. A substantial index ends the book.” (Alain Touwaide, Doody's Book Reviews, October, 2018) “The essays range from antiquity to today’s bariatric, cosmetic and minimal access surgery, and are widely researched, clearly written and authoritative, backed up by extensive bibliographies. This is an important contribution to the subject of surgical history. It is not light reading, but it will be a valuable source book to anyone wishing to research in depth into any of its specialist topics.” (Harold Ellis, British Journal of Hospital Medicine, Vol. 79 (3), March, 2018) The essays range from antiquity to today's bariatric, cosmetic and minimal access surgery, and are widely researched, clearly written and authoritative, backed up by extensive bibliographies. This is an important contribution to the subject of surgical history. It is not light reading, but it will be a valuable source book to anyone wishing to research in depth into any of its specialist topics. (Harold Ellis, British Journal of Hospital Medicine, Vol. 79 (3), March, 2018) Author InformationThomas Schlich, MD, is James McGill Professor in the History of Medicine at the Department Social Studies of Medicine at McGill University, Canada, and has a double qualification as physician and historian. His research interests include the history of modern medicine and science from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century. He has previously written books on transplantation, and on operative fracture care as a domain where surgery, science, and industry come together. He is currently working on a monograph about the emergence of modern surgery, 1800-1914. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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