TY  - BOOK
AU  - Frampton,Sally
TI  - Belly-Rippers, Surgical Innovation and the Ovariotomy Controversy
T2  - Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History Series
SN  - 9783319789347
AV  - Q124.6-127.2 
U1  - 618.11 
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Cham
PB  - Springer International Publishing AG
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- A Gendered Operation? -- Ovariotomy and Innovation -- The Distinctiveness of Surgical Innovation -- Sources -- Outline of the Book -- Chapter 2 Pathologies, Actions, Ideas -- Heroes and Villains -- Locating the Pathological Ovary in Early Modern Medicine -- The Dropsical Patient -- Removing the Ovaries: A Disembodied Technique -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Creating a Surgical Controversy -- From Kentucky to Edinburgh to the Pages of the Lancet: Ovarian Surgery in the Early Nineteenth Century -- Progress or Culpable Homicide? -- Who's Responsible? Patients, Risk and Emotive Accounts -- 'An Eminently Uncertain Operation': Ovariotomy and the Trouble with Statistics -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4 Patent Concerns, Unpatentable Procedures -- Situating Surgical Credit -- 'Attempting to Bind the Winds': The Unpatentability of Surgery -- Clay's Adhesion Clam and the Pedicle Dispute -- Uneasy Pioneers: Thomas Spencer Wells and Charles Clay -- Imitations and Imports: Ovariotomy on the Global Stage -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5 The Business of Surgery -- Medicine, Money and Morality -- The Operator Becomes the Ovariotomist: Specialism and Private Practice -- Surgical Fees: Determining the Cost of Ovariotomy -- O�ophorectomy, Operative Mania and Surgical Consumption -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6 The Afterlife of an Operation -- Narratives of Victory -- All in a Name? Decline, Diffusion and Surgical Linguistics -- Afterlives: Patient Experiences After Ovarian Surgery -- Could Ovariotomy Ever Have Been Conservative? -- Disbelief and Nostalgia: How Surgeons Used History to Make Sense of Ovariotomy -- Conclusion -- Chapter 7 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
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