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090 _aWO211.AA1.P452c 1985 9 [00002157214]
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100 1 _aPernick, Martin S.
245 1 2 _aA calculus of suffering :
_bpain, professionalism, and anesthesia in nineteenth-century America /
_cMartin S. Pernick.
260 _aNew York :
_bColumbia University Press,
_c1985.
300 _axiii, 421 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c24 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 349-397) and index.
505 0 _aPart I. Anesthesia and medicine in nineteenth-century America -- 1. The case of McGonigle's foot: nonanesthetic surgery in postanesthetic America -- 2. A house divided: an interpretive overview of nineteenth-century American medicine -- Part II. Why not everyone? The meaning of selective anesthetization -- 3. The drawbacks of anesthesia -- 4. The benefits of anesthesia -- 5. The professional calculus: anesthesia and the origins of utilitarian professionalism -- 6. From the universal to the particular: professionalism, anesthesia, and human individuality -- 7.'They don't feel it like we do': social politics and the perception of pain -- Part III. Who received anesthetics: theory and practice -- 8. Indications and contraindications: rules for using anesthetics -- 9. Ideology and action: who actually received anesthetics -- 10. Why doctors still differed -- 11. Anesthesia and the calculus of suffering: a critical evaluation -- Afterword: Professionalism and change: history and social theory.
650 2 _aAnesthesiology
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
650 2 _aHistory, 19th Century
_zUnited States.
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