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This handbook covers the technical, social and cultural history of
surgery. It reflects the state of the art and suggests directions
for future research. It discusses what is different and specific
about the history of surgery - a manual activity with a direct
impact on the patient's body. The individual entries in the
handbook function as starting points for anyone who wants to obtain
up-to-date information about an area in the history of surgery for
purposes of research or for general orientation. Written by 26
experts from 6 countries, the chapters discuss the essential topics
of the field (such as anaesthesia, wound infection, instruments,
specialization), specific domains areas (for example, cancer
surgery, transplants, animals, war), but also innovative themes
(women, popular culture, nursing, clinical trials) and make
connections to other areas of historical research (such as the
history of emotions, art, architecture, colonial history). Chapters
16 and 18 of this book are available open access under a CC BY 4.0
license at link.springer.com
The risks involved in introducing new drugs and devices are amongst
the most discussed issues of modern medicine. Presenting a new way
of thinking about these issues, this volume considers risk and
medical innovation from a social historical perspective, and
studies specific cases of medical innovation, including X-rays, the
pill and Thalidomide, in their respective contexts. International
cases are examined through the lens of a particular set of shared
questions - highlighting differences, similarities, continuities
and changes, and offering a historical sociology of risk.
Particularly important is the re-conceptualization of dangers in
terms of risk - a numerical and probabilistic approach allowing for
seemingly objective and value-neutral decisions. Read together,
these papers add to our understanding of the current debate about
risk and safety by providing a comparative background to the
discussion, as well as a set of generally applicable criteria for
analyzing and evaluating the contemporary issues surrounding
medical innovation.
The risks involved in introducing new drugs and devices are amongst
the most discussed issues of modern medicine. Presenting a new way
of thinking about these issues, this volume considers risk and
medical innovation from a social historical perspective, and
studies specific cases of medical innovation, including X-rays, the
pill and Thalidomide, in their respective contexts. International
cases are examined through the lens of a particular set of shared
questions - highlighting differences, similarities, continuities
and changes, and offering a historical sociology of risk.
Particularly important is the re-conceptualization of dangers in
terms of risk - a numerical and probabilistic approach allowing for
seemingly objective and value-neutral decisions. Read together,
these papers add to our understanding of the current debate about
risk and safety by providing a comparative background to the
discussion, as well as a set of generally applicable criteria for
analyzing and evaluating the contemporary issues surrounding
medical innovation.
This handbook covers the technical, social and cultural history of
surgery. It reflects the state of the art and suggests directions
for future research. It discusses what is different and specific
about the history of surgery - a manual activity with a direct
impact on the patient's body. The individual entries in the
handbook function as starting points for anyone who wants to obtain
up-to-date information about an area in the history of surgery for
purposes of research or for general orientation. Written by 26
experts from 6 countries, the chapters discuss the essential topics
of the field (such as anaesthesia, wound infection, instruments,
specialization), specific domains areas (for example, cancer
surgery, transplants, animals, war), but also innovative themes
(women, popular culture, nursing, clinical trials) and make
connections to other areas of historical research (such as the
history of emotions, art, architecture, colonial history). Chapters
16 and 18 of this book are available open access under a CC BY 4.0
license at link.springer.com
Examining the complex dynamics of medical treatment options and the
variable character of surgical technologies, this volume broadens
and transcends the notion of technological innovation. Surgery is
an ideal field for examining the processes of technological change
in medicine. The contributors to this book go beyond the concept of
innovation, with its focus on a single technology and its sharp
dichotomy of acceptance versus rejection. Instead they explore the
historical contexts of change in surgery, looking at the complex
dynamics of the various treatment options available -- old and new,
surgical and nonsurgical -- as well as the variable character of
the new technologies themselves, thus broadening and transcending
the notion of technological innovation. CONTRIBUTORS: Christopher
Crenner, Sally Frampton, Delia Gavrus, Lisa Haushofer, David S.
Jones, Beth Linker, Shelley McKellar, Thomas Schlich Thomas Schlich
is the James McGill Professor of the History of Medicine at the
Department of Social Studies of Medicine at McGill University.
Christopher Crenner is the RalphMajor and Robert Hudson Professor
and chair of the Department of History and Philosophy of Medicine
at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
A history of the little-known or forgotten academic origins of
modern organ transplant surgery. This book investigates a crucial
-- but forgotten -- episode in the history of medicine. In it,
Thomas Schlich systematically documents and analyzes the earliest
clinical and experimental organ transplant surgeries. In so doing
helays open the historical origins of modern transplantation,
offering a new and original analysis of its conceptual basis within
a broader historical context. This first comprehensive account of
the birth of modern transplantmedicine examines how doctors and
scientists between 1880 and 1930 developed the technology and
rationale for performing surgical organ replacement within the
epistemological and social context of experimental university
medicine. The clinical application of organ replacement, however,
met with formidable obstacles even as the procedure became more
widely recognized. Schlich highlights various attempts to overcome
these obstacles, including immunologicalexplanations and new
technologies of immune suppression, and documents the changes in
surgical technique and research standards that led to the temporary
abandonment of organ transplantation by the 1930s. Thomas Schlichis
Professor and Canada Research Chair in the History of Medicine at
McGill University.
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