Belly-Rippers, Surgical Innovation and the Ovariotomy Controversy (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)

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.

General

Imprint:	Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
Release date:	2019
First published:	2018
Authors:	Sally Frampton
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	267
Edition:	1st ed. 2018
ISBN-13:	978-3-319-78610-0
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > History of medicine Books > Medicine > Surgery > Surgical oncology Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Medicine > Clinical & internal medicine > Gynaecology & obstetrics > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
LSN:	3-319-78610-5
Barcode:	9783319786100

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