1st Edition
With Words and Knives Learning Medical Dispassion in Early Modern England
By Lynda Payne
Copyright 2007
194 Pages
by
Routledge
194 Pages
by
Routledge
194 Pages
by
Routledge
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The practice of medicine in the days before the development of anaesthetics could often be a brutal and painful experience. Many procedures, especially those involving surgery, must have proved almost as distressing to the doctor as to the patient. Yet in order to cure, the medical practitioner was often required to inflict pain and the patient to endure it. Some level of detachment has always... Read more
Contents: Introduction; Faithful eyes; Rational minds; Godly hearts; Disciplined hands; Necessary inhumanity; Conversant with the dead; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Lynda Payne is Professor in the Department of History, University of Missouri - Kansas City, USA.
’This book raises more questions than it answers, but is a fine and richly textured work of scholarship. Payne is to be applauded for opening up a complex and fascinating topic and striking an original and revealing path through it.’ Sixteenth Century Journal
