Book ID: CBB956578265

Belly-Rippers, Surgical Innovation and the Ovariotomy Controversy (2018)

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Frampton, Sally (Author)


Palgrave Macmillan


Publication Date: 2018
Physical Details: 340
Language: English

This open access book looks at the dramatic history of ovariotomy, an operation to remove ovarian tumours first practiced in the early nineteenth century. Bold and daring, surgeons who performed it claimed to be initiating a new era of surgery by opening the abdomen. Ovariotomy soon occupied a complex position within medicine and society, as an operation which symbolised surgical progress, while also remaining at the boundaries of ethical acceptability. This book traces the operation’s innovation, from its roots in eighteenth-century pathology, through the denouncement of those who performed it as ‘belly-rippers’, to its rapid uptake in the 1880s, when ovariotomists were accused of over-operating. Throughout the century, the operation was never a hair’s breadth from controversy.

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Review Claire Brock (2020) Review of "Belly-Rippers, Surgical Innovation and the Ovariotomy Controversy". Social History of Medicine (pp. 669-670). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
L. M. Irvine
Zanon, Alessia
Barrière, Jean-Paul
Jarrell, John
Mion, Marta
Marchese-Ragona, Rosario
Concepts
Medicine
Gynecology
Surgery
Cancer; tumors
Medicine and gender
Medicine and ethics
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
18th century
20th century, early
20th century, late
Places
Germany
England
France
United States
Argentina
Europe
Institutions
Salpêtrière, Paris
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