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Blessed Days of Anaesthesia : How anaesthetics changed the world.
Among all the great discoveries and inventions of the nineteenth century, few offer us a more fascinating insight into Victorian society than the discovery of anaesthesia. Now considered to be one of the greatest inventions for humanity since the printing press, anaesthesia offered pain-free operati...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
OUP Oxford,
2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 Discoveries; 3 Anaesthesia In Action; 4 Women, Sex, And Suffering; 5 On Battlefields; 6 The Dark Side Of Chloroform; 7 Changed Understandings Of Pain; 8 Into The Twentieth Century And Beyond; Endnotes; Further Reading; Index.