Article ID: CBB372160240

Wounds and Wonder: Emotion, Imagination and War in the Cultures of Romantic Surgery (2020)

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Abstract: This article uses the writings of the surgical siblings John and Charles Bell to explore the relationships between surgery, war and emotion in the Romantic era. Drawing on the argument that it was in this period that war came to be constructed as the ‘ultimate' emotional experience, rich in pathos and distinct from anything in civil life, it argues that surgeons such as the Bells might capitalise on the cultural cachet of war to bridge the professional and experiential divide between the civil and military spheres, but that this process was fraught with complexity and ambiguity, both politically and emotionally.

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Authors & Contributors
Berkowitz, Carin
Kaufman, Matthew H.
Biddle, Richard
Broomhall, Susan
Brown, Michael
Budge, Gavin
Journals
Journal of Medical Biography
Medical History
Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography
19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin Canadienne d'Histoire de la Medecine
Publishers
Cambridge University Press
Arcade Publishing
Rodopi
Routledge
Springer Nature
Concepts
Surgery
Physicians; doctors
Medicine and the military; medicine in war
Medicine
Emotions; passions
Romanticism
People
Bell, Charles
Ballingall, George
Barbauld, Anna Letitia
Darwin, Erasmus
Guthrie, George James
Hutton, James
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
17th century
20th century, early
Enlightenment
Places
Great Britain
Scotland
United States
England
Pennsylvania (U.S.)
British Isles
Institutions
University of Edinburgh
Great Britain. Royal Navy
Royal College of Surgeons, London
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