Book ID: CBB000951519

Blessed Days of Anaesthesia: How Anaesthetics Changed the World (2008)

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Snow, Stephanie J. (Author)


Oxford University Press


Publication Date: 2008
Physical Details: xiv + 226 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description Focuses on 19th-century controversies and new attitudes on pain and suffering.


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Review Flannery, Michael A. (2013) Review of "Blessed Days of Anaesthesia: How Anaesthetics Changed the World". Pharmacy in History (pp. 161-162). unapi

Review Ball, Christine (2009) Review of "Blessed Days of Anaesthesia: How Anaesthetics Changed the World". Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (p. 491). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Mann, Annika
Shin, Paul J.
Chelnik, Judy M.
Carmody, John
Wright, A. J.
Wolf, Jacqueline H.
Concepts
Medicine and technology, relationships
Medicine
Medical technology
Anesthesia
Pain
Medicine and culture
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
18th century
20th century, late
21st century
17th century
Places
United States
Germany
Canada
Great Britain
England
France
Institutions
University of Toronto
Smithsonian Institution
Institut für Infektionskrankheiten, Berlin
Institut Pasteur, Paris
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