Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History

Snow, S.

The introduction of anaesthesia to Victorian Britain marked a defining moment between modern medicine and earlier practices. This book uses new information from John Snow's casebooks and London hospital archives to revise many of the existing historical assumptions about the early history of surgical anaesthesia. By examining complex patterns of innovation, reversals, debate and geographical difference, Stephanie Snow shows how anaesthesia became established as a routine part of British medicine.

Details

Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2005-12-16

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781403934451

DOI: 10.1057/9780230209497

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 271