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Belly-Rippers, Surgical Innovation and the Ovariotomy Controversy (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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Belly-Rippers, Surgical Innovation and the Ovariotomy Controversy (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Series: Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
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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. Bold and daring, surgeons who performed it
claimed to be initiating a new era of surgery by opening the
abdomen. 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. This book traces the operation's innovation, from
its roots in eighteenth-century pathology, through the denouncement
of those who performed it as 'belly-rippers', to its rapid uptake
in the 1880s, when ovariotomists were accused of over-operating.
Throughout the century, the operation was never a hair's breadth
from controversy.
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