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With Words and Knives: Learning Medical Dispassion in Early Modern England Lynda Payne New edition
With Words and Knives: Learning Medical Dispassion in Early Modern England
Lynda Payne
The practice of medicine in the days before the development of anaesthetics could often be a brutal and painful experience. This book explores the idea of medical dispassion and shows how practitioners developed the intellectual, verbal and manual skill of being able to replace passion with equanimity and distance.
200 pages, includes 11 b&w illustrations
| Mídia | Livros Hardcover Book (Livro com lombada e capa dura) |
| Lançado | 28 de outubro de 2007 |
| ISBN13 | 9780754636892 |
| Editoras | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Páginas | 194 |
| Dimensões | 241 × 160 × 20 mm · 442 g |
| Idioma | Inglês |
| Editor de séries | Cunningham, Dr. Andrew |
| Editor de séries | Grell, Professor Ole Peter |