Belly-Rippers, Surgical Innovation and the Ovariotomy Controversy

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 compl...

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Autore principale:	Frampton, Sally
Natura:	Online
Lingua:	inglese
Pubblicazione:	Springer Nature 2021
Soggetti:	History Social history Medicine—History Abdominal surgery Sociology thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural history thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies, gender groups thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBX History of medicine thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MN Surgery::MNC General surgery thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues::PDX History of science
Accesso online:	1007211
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