With Words and Knives Learning Medical Dispassion in Early Modern England By: Lynda Payne Publisher: Routledge Print ISBN: 9781138257177, 1138257176 eText ISBN: 9781134770090, 113477009X Edition: 1st Copyright year: 2007 Format: EPUB Available from $ 23.98 USD SKU 9781134770090R90 The practice of medicine in the days before the development of anaesthetics could often be a brutal and painful experience. Many procedures, especially those involving surgery, must have proved almost as distressing to the doctor as to the patient. Yet in order to cure, the medical practitioner was often required to inflict pain and the patient to endure it. Some level of detachment has always been required of the doctor and especially, of the surgeon. It is the construction of this detachment, or dispassion, in early modern England, with which this work is concerned. The book explores the idea of medical dispassion and shows how pr Download ebook: https://ouo.io/Pa9E37j
