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Belly-Rippers, Surgical Innovation and the Ovariotomy Controversy [electronic resource] / by Sally Frampton.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern HistoryPublisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018Edition: 1st ed. 2018Description: XVI, 267 p. 10 illus., 5 illus. in color. online resourceContent type:
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  • 9783319789347
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  • 509 23
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Contents:
Chapter One: Introduction -- Chapter Two: Pathologies, Actions, Ideas -- Chapter Three: Representations of Practice -- Chapter Four: Patent Concerns, Unpatentable Procedures -- Chapter Five: The Business of Surgery -- Chapter Six: The Afterlife of an Operation -- Chapter Seven: Conclusion.
In: Springer Nature eBookSummary: 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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Chapter One: Introduction -- Chapter Two: Pathologies, Actions, Ideas -- Chapter Three: Representations of Practice -- Chapter Four: Patent Concerns, Unpatentable Procedures -- Chapter Five: The Business of Surgery -- Chapter Six: The Afterlife of an Operation -- Chapter Seven: Conclusion.

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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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